The Last Man (Annotated)
Auteur: Mary Shelley
Nombre de pages: 446 pages
ISBN: 1518657168, 9781518657160
Edition: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date de publication: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Description: (Includes the complete and unabridged novel; The Last Man, by Mary Shelley. This volume also contains a biography of Mary Shelley and a complete Bibliography of her work.)Our little town of Windsor, in which the survivors from the neighbouring counties were chiefly assembled, wore a melancholy aspect. Its streets were blocked up with snow-the few passengers seemed palsied, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter. To escape these evils was the aim and scope of all our exertions. Families late devoted to exalting and refined pursuits, rich, blooming, and young, with diminished numbers and care-fraught hearts, huddled over a fire, grown selfish and grovelling through suffering. Without the aid of servants, it was necessary to discharge all household duties; hands unused to such labour must knead the bread, or in the absence of flour, the statesmen or perfumed courtier must undertake the butcher's office. Poor and rich were now equal, or rather the poor were the superior, since they entered on such tasks with alacrity and experience; while ignorance, inaptitude, and habits of repose, rendered them fatiguing to the luxurious, galling to the proud, disgustful to all whose minds, bent on intellectual improvement, held it their dearest privilege to be exempt from attending to mere animal wants.
