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The Last Man

by Mary Shelley

Love and war in future Europe are thrown into confusion by a global pandemic that obliterates humanity.

Themes: Fiction · Science Fiction

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The narrator first shrinks his native land to a speck, then declares its mental power outweighs larger countries. This double vision is a lens: everything that follows — fortunes, friendship, even a kingdom — will be tested by the very mutability he inherits.

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