The Last Man (Oxford World's Classics) 英文原版 牛津世界经典系列：最后一个男人 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

基本信息

By (author) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Edited by Morton D. Paley

Format Paperback | 512 pages

Dimensions 128 x 195 x 23mm | 354g

Publication date 01 Dec 2010

Publisher Oxford University Press

Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Reprint

ISBN10 0199552355

ISBN13 9780199552351

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824).

Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to England from Italy after her husband's death.

It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates the story, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.

The Last Man also functions as an intriguing roman a clef, for the saintly Adrian is a monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his friend Lord Raymond is a portrait of Byron. The novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, as Shelley demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem her doomed characters.

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'最后一个男人！我可以很好地形容这种孤独的人的感觉，感觉自己是一个挚爱的种族的最后遗物，我的同伴在我面前灭绝了。” 玛丽·雪莱，《日记》（1824年5月）。

玛丽·雪莱（Mary Shelley）是《科学怪人》（Frankenstein）的作者，在八年后因丈夫去世从意大利返回英国而写下了《最后的男人》（The Last Man），这件事引起了人们的最深刻的回忆。

那是二十一世纪，英格兰是一个由统治精英统治的共和国，其中一个人，温莎伯爵阿德里安（Adrian）将坎布里亚男孩引入了这个圈子。这位局外人莱昂内尔·弗尼（Lionel Verney）讲述了这个故事，一个复杂而悲惨的爱情故事，以及瘟疫逐渐消灭人类的故事。

《最后的男人》还充当了一个吸引人的罗马谱号，因为圣贤阿德里安（Adrian）是珀西·比希·雪莱（Percy Bysshe Shelley）的纪念碑，他的朋友雷蒙德勋爵（Lord Raymond）是拜伦的画像。小说提供了一种对浪漫主义做出反应的未来远景，因为雪莱证明了想象力和艺术未能挽救她注定的角色。

关于系列：一百多年来，《牛津世界经典》已经提供了来自全球的最广泛的文学作品。每本负担得起的书册都反映了牛津大学对奖学金的承诺，提供了最准确的文字以及许多其他有价值的功能，包括主要机构的专家介绍，有用的注释以澄清文字，*新的书目以供进一步研究等等。

作者简介

Morton D. Paley is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly.

Morton D. Paley是加州大学伯克利分校的英语教授。他是《布雷克：插图季刊》的共同编辑。