The Last Man
novel by Shelley
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Mary Shelley's novel, The Last Man, published in 1826, is a work of Romantic fiction. It is often ranked as her best work and is an account of the future destruction of the human race by a plague. Shelley is best known for her novel Frankenstein.12
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