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The Last Man: (New Edition) - Mary Shelley
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November 21, 2025
Glad I read it, but it was hard to get through. Well written, but with cumbersome language & descriptions. Like taking a walk through a beautiful wood, on a very muddy path.
January 30, 2026
Friends, I have read this so that you do not have to. I am glad I read it, but I don't recommend reading it, because it is looooooooonnng and very light on the apocalypse until it isn't.
The entire first volume is about various romances and they go on and on; it isn't until the second volume that there are any deaths at all (and even these are deaths of stupidity, not really plague). When Shelley DOES get into the plague, this is astute and fascinating. In addition to the infectious plague, Shelley predicts climate disasters, really interesting politics, and so on. And yet, it is just very long and overly intent on various side stories.
But MS is the Queen. And we stan a Goth Queen.
The entire first volume is about various romances and they go on and on; it isn't until the second volume that there are any deaths at all (and even these are deaths of stupidity, not really plague). When Shelley DOES get into the plague, this is astute and fascinating. In addition to the infectious plague, Shelley predicts climate disasters, really interesting politics, and so on. And yet, it is just very long and overly intent on various side stories.
But MS is the Queen. And we stan a Goth Queen.
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March 20, 2026
“I long to grapple with danger, to be excited by fear, to have some task, however slight or voluntary, for each day”
“The green woods waved their boughs majestically, while the dying were spread beneath their shade, answering the solemn melody with inharmonious cries.”
“She went on, feeling that, if she had paused a moment, the checked waters of misery would have divulged her soul, that her wrecked hopes would raise their wailing voices, and that those who now echoed her mirth, and provoked her repartee, would have shrunk in fear from her convulsive despair.”
“The green woods waved their boughs majestically, while the dying were spread beneath their shade, answering the solemn melody with inharmonious cries.”
“She went on, feeling that, if she had paused a moment, the checked waters of misery would have divulged her soul, that her wrecked hopes would raise their wailing voices, and that those who now echoed her mirth, and provoked her repartee, would have shrunk in fear from her convulsive despair.”
July 15, 2026
I really tried
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April 28, 2024RK KINDLE
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