The Last Man Summary
Mary Shelley

Everything you need to understand or teach The Last Man by Mary Shelley. Products may contain comprehensive summaries, analysis, notes, articles, essays, lesson plans and more. See below for details on what is included.

Not what you meant?

Study The Last Man

The The Last Man Study Pack contains about 635 pages of study material in 8 products, including:

Project Gutenberg eBooks (1)

The Last Man

155,969 words, approx. 520 pages

INTRODUCTION. I visited Naples in the year 1818. On the 8th of December of that year, my companion and I crossed the Bay, to visit the antiquities which are scattered on the shores of Baiae.&nbs... Read more

Mary Shelley Biography (7)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

6,717 words, approx. 23 pages

Biography EssayBy the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written one of the most famous novels ever published. Embodying one of the central myths of Western culture, Frankenstein;... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

4,579 words, approx. 16 pages

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) is best known for her novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which has transcended the Gothic and horror genres and is now recognized as a work o... Read more

Mary Shelley

4,761 words, approx. 16 pages

Long after the event, Mary Shelley would recall the crucible out of which her most famous fictional progeny was fused. "In the summer of 1816, we visited Switzerland, and became the neighbors of Lord ... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

5,738 words, approx. 20 pages

The most eloquent summary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's position in English letters is still Leigh Hunt's much-quoted couplet from "The Blue-Stocking Revels": "And Shelley, fourfam'd,--for her pare... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

6,059 words, approx. 21 pages

By the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written one of the most famous novels ever published. Embodying one of the central myths of Western culture, Frankenstein; or, The Moder... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

4,490 words, approx. 15 pages

When Mary Shelley returned to England from the Continent in August 1823 and began writing short fiction in earnest, she was already a well-known figure on the English literary scene. She was the aut... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

1,918 words, approx. 7 pages

When they hear the name "Shelley," most students and scholars of literature usually think of the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Students and scholars of those particular types of literature... Read more

The Last Man SummaryMary Shelley

Study The Last Man

Project Gutenberg eBooks (1)

Mary Shelley Biography (7)

The Last Man Summary
Mary Shelley