Written by one of the most widely-studied of contemporary French writers, La Dernier Homme is an austere, intriguing work of nontraditional fiction that explores the distance between desire and its attainment. The story unfolds in the form of an interior monologue at once forbidding and compelling. In what seems to be a sanatorium near a mountain, from twhich the sea is visible...(展开全部)

Mary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, now in Penguin Classics for the first time 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 ...(展开全部)

玛丽•雪莱，科幻小说之母，19世纪天才女作家，英国著名诗人雪莱的妻子。 1818年创作了文学史上第一部真正意义上的科幻小说《弗兰肯斯坦》（科学怪人），自1816年面世以来，已经被翻译成100多种语言。根据它改编的舞台剧和电影多达几十个版本，1931年《科学怪人》的续集电影，被视为影史上重要的恐怖电影之一。它还为英语添加了一个新的单词Frankenstein：一个最终毁了它的创造者的东西。 丈夫雪莱死后，留下不足三岁的幼子，玛丽的父亲因故不愿供养二人，玛丽笔耕不辍，最终成为自食其力的专业作家。 长篇小说代表有《弗兰肯斯坦》《最后一个人》《永生者》，其一生著有16本图书和专著，多篇短篇小说、散文、游记、诗歌等。

This apocalyptic tale by the author of "Frankenstein" envisions a future world devastated by plague. Misunderstood by contemporary readers, Mary Shelley's 1826 precursor to the science fiction novel has reemerged to critical acclaim. Its quasibiographical portraits of the author's Romantic-era cohorts, including Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, are of particular interest.

在线阅读本书 With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, 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 ...(展开全部)

Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of thei...(展开全部)

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The E...(展开全部)

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End ...(展开全部)