The last man

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Sinopse

This book comes with an introduction and notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, of the Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London. "The 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.

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Autor: Mary Shelley

Autor

MARY SHELLEY

Mary Shelley nasceu em Londres, em 30 de agosto de 1797. Esposa do poeta inglês Percy B. Shelley, escreveu Frankenstein para participar de um concurso de histórias de terror realizado na intimidade do castelo de Lord Byron. Mesmo competindo com grandes gênios da literatura universal, acabou redigindo esta que é uma das mais impressionantes histórias de horror de todos os tempos. A história do dr. Victor Frankenstein e da monstruosa criatura por ele concebida vem fascinando gerações desde que foi publicada há mais de cem anos. Brilhante história de horror, escrita com fervor quase alucinatório, Frankenstein representa um dos mais estranhos florescimentos da imaginação romântica. Mary Shelley foi reconhecida como grande romancista ainda em vida. A autora morreu de câncer cerebral em 1º de fevereiro de 1851, com 53 anos, em Londres.