The Last Man

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Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel about a future plague

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Maria PopovaThe Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh · Maria Popova on Turning Matter Into Meaning · 7:18 · 12 May
…And I had just reread, she has a novel called The Last Man, which is about a 21st century plague that incrementally kills off all of humanity except the protagonist, who is left wandering amidst the statues and museums of Rome, wondering about the point of it all.…
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