![]() Lionel grows up uneducated, wild, and devoted to rebellion and petty crime before he meets Adrian, the Earl of Windsor. Lionel’s parents become impoverished and die, leaving young Lionel to raise his strong-willed sister, Perdita. ![]() The Last Man is narrated by Lionel Verney, the son of an English nobleman, beginning in the year 2073. However, this book of survival and loneliness during a plague, often considered the first dystopian novel, has an added poignancy in today’s COVID-19 reality. Her book, The Last Man, published in 1826, was not received well by critics or audiences upon publication and is rarely written about today. However, in addition to articles and travelogues, she wrote several other novels with mixed success. It was and is such a prominent part of literary and popular culture that modern audiences might be forgiven for thinking it her only novel. Mary Shelley’s classic science fiction and horror novel, Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus, was an instant hit when it was published in 1818. ![]()
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