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245 14 a| The last man and the journal of sorrow /c| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; edited with an introduction and notes by by Eileen M. Hunt.;

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300 a| li, 527 pages ;c| 20 cm.;

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490 1 a| Oxford world's classics;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references.;

520 a| 'I will leave a monument of the existence of Verney, the Last Man.' Mary Shelley began writing her 'Journal of Sorrow' (c. 1822-26) three months after the devastating loss of her husband the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to drowning. In the privacy of the diary's pages, she grapples with her overwhelming grief over the tragic losses of her young husband, three of their children, and their friend the poet Lord Byron. Shelley ultimately resisted a suicidal depression by throwing herself into writing the allegorical plague novel and roman à clef, The Last Man (1826). Rooted in her own experiences of plagues both real and metaphorical, Shelley set The Last Man in the aftermath of a pestilential, centuries-long war between Greece and Turkey in the late twenty-first century. The novel is an existential and political thought experiment which provokes the mortal reader to contemplate the meaning of life and death in the face of the human-made disasters of war, epidemic, and species extinction. Through the ever-hopeful voice of the narrator Lionel Verney, the eponymous last man, Shelley leads readers to consider: what should be done after a massive global disaster? This edition presents these two masterpieces together, with a new editorial introduction and notes for both texts, giving readers profound insight into Mary Shelley's enduring relevance for existential philosophy, life writing, post-apocalyptic literature, and political thought.;

650 0 a| End of the worldv| Fiction.;

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700 12 a| Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,d| 1797-1851.t| Last man.;

700 12 a| Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,d| 1797-1851.t| Journal of sorrow.;

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The last man and the journal of sorrow / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; edited with an introduction and notes by by Eileen M. Hunt.

Author/creator	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft author.
Other author	Hunt, Eileen M., 1971- editor.
Format	Book
Publication	Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2026]
Copyright Date	©2026
Description	li, 527 pages ; 20 cm.
Subjects	End of the world--Fiction. Plague--Fiction.

Uniform title	Works. Selections
Series	Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics.
Abstract	'I will leave a monument of the existence of Verney, the Last Man.' Mary Shelley began writing her 'Journal of Sorrow' (c. 1822-26) three months after the devastating loss of her husband the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to drowning. In the privacy of the diary's pages, she grapples with her overwhelming grief over the tragic losses of her young husband, three of their children, and their friend the poet Lord Byron. Shelley ultimately resisted a suicidal depression by throwing herself into writing the allegorical plague novel and roman à clef, The Last Man (1826). Rooted in her own experiences of plagues both real and metaphorical, Shelley set The Last Man in the aftermath of a pestilential, centuries-long war between Greece and Turkey in the late twenty-first century. The novel is an existential and political thought experiment which provokes the mortal reader to contemplate the meaning of life and death in the face of the human-made disasters of war, epidemic, and species extinction. Through the ever-hopeful voice of the narrator Lionel Verney, the eponymous last man, Shelley leads readers to consider: what should be done after a massive global disaster? This edition presents these two masterpieces together, with a new editorial introduction and notes for both texts, giving readers profound insight into Mary Shelley's enduring relevance for existential philosophy, life writing, post-apocalyptic literature, and political thought.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
Genre/form	Dystopias.
Genre/form	Dystopias
Genre/form	Novels
Genre/form	Dystopias.
ISBN	9780198892793 (paperback)
ISBN	0198892799 (paperback)
Standard identifier#	CIPO000338631

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