The Last Man
Written by Mary Shelley
Narrated by Carl Mason
2/5
()
About this audiobook
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist. Born the daughter of William Godwin, a novelist and anarchist philosopher, and Mary Wollstonecraft, a political philosopher and pioneering feminist, Shelley was raised and educated by Godwin following the death of Wollstonecraft shortly after her birth. In 1814, she began her relationship with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom she would later marry following the death of his first wife, Harriet. In 1816, the Shelleys, joined by Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont, physician and writer John William Polidori, and poet Lord Byron, vacationed at the Villa Diodati near Geneva, Switzerland. They spent the unusually rainy summer writing and sharing stories and poems, and the event is now seen as a landmark moment in Romanticism. During their stay, Shelley composed her novel Frankenstein (1818), Byron continued his work on Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-1818), and Polidori wrote “The Vampyre” (1819), now recognized as the first modern vampire story to be published in English. In 1818, the Shelleys traveled to Italy, where their two young children died and Mary gave birth to Percy Florence Shelley, the only one of her children to survive into adulthood. Following Percy Bysshe Shelley’s drowning death in 1822, Mary returned to England to raise her son and establish herself as a professional writer. Over the next several decades, she wrote the historical novel Valperga (1923), the dystopian novel The Last Man (1826), and numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction. Recognized as one of the core figures of English Romanticism, Shelley is remembered as a woman whose tragic life and determined individualism enabled her to produce essential works of literature which continue to inform, shape, and inspire the horror and science fiction genres to this day.
Related to The Last Man
Related audiobooks
The Last Man, Volume 1 (Unabridged) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Man, Volume 3 (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Man, Volume 2 (Unabridged) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mathilda Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The War of the Worlds (Unabridged) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Blazing World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Testament of Gideon Mack Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Woman On the Edge of Time Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ethan Frome Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Herland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein: Digitally narrated using a synthesized voice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Turn of The Screw Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Moll Flanders Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mary Shelley: The Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Middlemarch Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Native Tongue Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wuthering Heights (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHerland (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Age of Innocence Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Villette Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Machine Stops Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oroonoko or The Royal Slave (Unabridged) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Three Musketeers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of Emily Brontë Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dracula Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Herland: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Salomé Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Classics For You
The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Their Eyes Were Watching God Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Old Man and the Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Picture of Dorian Gray: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Sherlock Holmes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fountainhead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Atlas Shrugged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Crucible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5War & Peace - Volume I Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Perks of Being a Wallflower Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Schindler's List Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers in the Attic: 40th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/520,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Tale of Two Cities Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Name of the Rose Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stone Blind: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pride and Prejudice: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Gatsby Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Thousand Ships: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Farewell to Arms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prince: Machiavelli Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Last Man
1 rating0 reviews