The Last Man

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ReadHowYouWant.com, 2009年4月16日 - 696 頁
With The Last Man, published in 1826, Mary Shelley generated the genre of science-fiction. The narrative is set in late twenty first century when technological advances give rise to a deadly plague that is threatening to smother human civilization as we know it. The destruction of plague and war allows Shelley to portray the best and the worst in human nature.

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18
CHAPTER IV
61
CHAPTER V
84
CHAPTER VI
109
CHAPTER VII
129
CHAPTER VIII
153
CHAPTER IX
173
CHAPTER X
202
CHAPTER XI
230
CHAPTER XII
247
CHAPTER XIII
271
CHAPTER XIV
300
CHAPTER XV
337
CHAPTER XVI
343

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in England on August 30, 1797. Her parents were two celebrated liberal thinkers, William Godwin, a social philosopher, and Mary Wollstonecraft, a women's rights advocate. Eleven days after Mary's birth, her mother died of puerperal fever. Four motherless years later, Godwin married Mary Jane Clairmont, bringing her and her two children into the same household with Mary and her half-sister, Fanny. Mary's idolization of her father, his detached and rational treatment of their bond, and her step-mother's preference for her own children created a tense and awkward home. Mary's education and free-thinking were encouraged, so it should not surprise us today that at the age of sixteen she ran off with the brilliant, nineteen-year old and unhappily married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley became her ideal, but their life together was a difficult one. Traumas plagued them: Shelley's wife and Mary's half-sister both committed suicide; Mary and Shelley wed shortly after he was widowed but social disapproval forced them from England; three of their children died in infancy or childhood; and while Shelley was an aristocrat and a genius, he was also moody and had little money. Mary conceived of her magnum opus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, when she was only nineteen when Lord Byron suggested they tell ghost stories at a house party. The resulting book took over two years to write and can be seen as the brilliant creation of a powerful but tormented mind. The story of Frankenstein has endured nearly two centuries and countless variations because of its timeless exploration of the tension between our quest for knowledge and our thirst for good. Shelley drowned when Mary was only 24, leaving her with an infant and debts. She died from a brain tumor on February 1, 1851 at the age of 54.

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