Last Man

''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 re...