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100	1		_92973 _aShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, _d1797-1851
245	1	4	_aThe last man / _cMary Shelley ; with introduction and notes by Pamela Bickley.
250			_aComplete and unabridged edition.
260			_aWare : _bWordsworth Editions, _c2004.
300			_axxxiii, 395 p. ; _c20 cm.
490	1		_aWordsworth classics
520			_aThe Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle and her own reading. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812; they eloped in July 1814. In the summer of 1816 she began her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein. Three of her children died in early infancy and in 1822 her husband was drowned. Mary returned to England with her surviving son and wrote novels, short stories and accounts of her travels; she was the first editor of P.B.Shelley's poetry and verse.
650		0	_92974 _aEnd of the world _vFiction
650		0	_92975 _aPlague _vFiction
650		0	_91540 _aTwenty-first century _vFiction
655		0	_9395 _aScience fiction
700	1		_4aui _4cwt _92976 _aBickley, Pamela
830		0	_91147 _aWordsworth classics
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