Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~9 hr read

In the late twenty-first century, a plague sweeps the world nation by nation, and Lionel Verney watches the human race dwindle around him until he stands, at last, utterly alone.

Mary Shelley's 1826 novel, by the author of 'Frankenstein,' is a foundational work of post-apocalyptic fiction. Sweeping, elegiac, ahead of its time. Read it for the great pioneering novel of the last survivor, a pandemic that empties the earth, and one man's solitary journey through a world of ruins, from the mother of science fiction.

In its time

Published in 1826, during the 1820s, tales of mesmerism, ghosts, and the fantastic voyage flourish in the romantic imagination.

Reading it

~9 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).