{"product_id":"the-last-man-by-mary-shelley","title":"The Last Man by Mary Shelley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e comes this apocalyptic tale of a world devastated by plague. Mary Shelley's 1826 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eroman à clef\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes place in the late twenty-first century, as England's last king abdicates and a charmed circle of idealistic political reformers plunges into a maelstrom of war, pestilence, and anarchy.\u003cbr\u003eShelley wrote this gripping novel after the untimely deaths of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their comrade, Lord Byron. She modeled a pair of characters on the charismatic poets and based the narrator — the sole survivor of a pandemic — on her own persona. This parable of humanity's destruction by plague is widely regarded as a repudiation of Romanticism and its failure to solve the world's problems through art and philosophy. It reflects the ways utopian ideals, unchecked by moral and ethical standards, can shatter society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43158492807203,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1497\/8280\/files\/9780143137900.jpg?v=1782255072","url":"https:\/\/vinovoresilverlake.com\/products\/the-last-man-by-mary-shelley","provider":"VINOVORE Silver Lake","version":"1.0","type":"link"}