{"product_id":"the-last-man","title":"Shelley Mary: The Last Man [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, now in Penguin Classics for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss of her husband and children, and in the wake of intersecting crises including the climate-changing Mount Tambora eruption and a raging cholera outbreak, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1826) is an early work of climate fiction and a prophetic depiction of environmental change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in the late twenty-first century, a deadly pandemic leaves a lone survivor, and follows his journey through a post-apocalyptic world, devoid of humanity and reclaimed by nature. Rather than\u003cbr\u003egive in to despair, Shelley imagines a new world where freshly-formed communities and alternative ways of being stand in for self-important politicians serving corrupt institutions, and where nature reigns mightily over humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrimming with political intrigue, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Man \u003c\/i\u003ebroaches partisan dysfunction, imperial warfare, refugee crises, and economic collapse-and brings the legacy of her radically progressive parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, to bear on present-day questions about making a better world less centred around \"man.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary Shelley","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48993241891155,"sku":"9780143137900","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/mary-shelley-shelley-mary-the-last-man-2024-paperback-9780143137900-57230197129555.jpg?v=1726649582","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-last-man","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}