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1) The last man
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In a haunting vision of the future, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'The Last Man' transports readers to a world ravaged by a relentless plague, where humanity's resilience is tested against the backdrop of a crumbling civilization. Set in the late 21st century, the novel follows Lionel Verney, an outsider who rises to prominence amidst the chaos, as he navigates love, loss, and the struggle for survival in a world teetering on the brink of extinction....
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At a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveler returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi, and their troglodyte brothers. The first book H.G. Wells published, The Time Machine is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. Even before...
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