Name: The Last man (en Inglés)
SKU: 56142855
Price: 23.10 USD
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Author: Mary Shelley
ISBN: 9780143137900

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Libro Físico

Autor

Mary Shelley

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Penguin

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Inglés

N° páginas

512

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Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780143137900

The Last man (en Inglés)

Mary Shelley (Autor) · Penguin · Tapa Blanda

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Mary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, imagining a world where newly-forged communities and reverence for nature rises from the ashes of a pandemic-ravaged society, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit A Penguin Classic Written 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, The Last Man (1826) is the first end-of-mankind novel, an early work of climate fiction, and a prophetic depiction of environmental change. Set in the late twenty-first century, the book tells of a deadly pandemic that leaves a lone survivor, and follows his journey through a post-apocalyptic world that's devoid of humanity and reclaimed by nature. But rather than give in to despair, Shelley uses the now-ubiquitous end-times plot to imagine 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--a timely message for our current era of climate collapse and political upheaval. Brimming with political intrigue and love triangles around characters based on Percy Shelley and scandal-dogged poet Lord Byron, the novel also broaches 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 centered around "man." Shelley's second major novel after Frankenstein, The Last Man casts a half-skeptical eye on romantic ideals of utopian perfection and natural plenitude while looking ahead to a greener future in which our species develops new relationships with non-human life and the planet.

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Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Mary Shelley, nacida en Londres en (1797-1851), es la autora visionaria de Frankenstein, considerada la primera novela de ciencia ficción. Su vida estuvo marcada por el amor, la tragedia y la creatividad. Además de Frankenstein, escribió obras como El último hombre y Valperga, explorando temas como la ética, la soledad. Su legado trasciende generaciones, inspirando debates sobre ciencia y humanidad. Descubre en nuestra librería sus libros imprescindibles y déjate cautivar por la imaginación y el talento de una de las grandes figuras de la literatura universal.

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