{"product_id":"the-last-man-mary-shelley","title":"The Last Man - Mary Shelley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, now in Penguin Classics for the first timeWritten while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss of her husband and children, and in the wake of intersecting crises including the climate-changing Mount Tambora eruption and a raging cholera outbreak, The Last Man (1826) is an early work of climate fiction and a prophetic depiction of environmental change. Set in the late twenty-first century, a deadly pandemic leaves a lone survivor, and follows his journey through a post-apocalyptic world, devoid of humanity and reclaimed by nature. Rather thangive in to despair, Shelley imagines a new world where freshly-formed communities and alternative ways of being stand in for self-important politicians serving corrupt institutions, and where nature reigns mightily over humanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sector 7 Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57707177967990,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/0516\/0566\/files\/Screenshot2026-04-19at11.31.56.png?v=1776594740","url":"https:\/\/sector7books.com\/products\/the-last-man-mary-shelley","provider":"Sector 7 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}