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Book Review of The Last Man

The Last Man
The Last Man
Author: Mary Shelley
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) is most famous for Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. A friend suggested her 1826 novel The Last Man was especially poignant during the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you can ignore the Victorian-era obsession with facial characteristics and the casual assumptions of European, in particular British, superiority to the rest of the world, the novel does have some excellent, thought-provoking passages. https://muslimmediareview.blogspot.com/2021/02/quotes-from-mary-shelleys-last-man.html