The Last Man
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.
This book isn't giving end of times post-plague, it's giving soap opera
0just a lot of romantic melodrama but no pandemic or anything yet??? talk about a slowburn
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0I expected more from this in a few ways. The book was 95% relationship melodrama, 5% plague. Maybe it's the way this edition wrote the blurb, but it didn't really give what it was selling. If anything, the end of the world almost seemed like an afterthought while the characters are just struggling with each other. There is some realism to that, but the way Lionel and Co. responded felt like a charade of realism vs actual realism. It wasn't terrible, it just was not for me.
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