![]() ![]() The novel’s main focus is how the world deals with this pandemic, and in a nutshell, things go from bad to worse. When a dangerous strain of influenza is accidentally released from a lab, it claims the lives of 99% of the population. Reading The Stand may make the reader obsess, and adopt conspiracy theories, particularly with what’s going on in the world at the moment, but it is a masterful story of a post-apocalyptic world. Just as in novels like The Road, The Last Man examines relationships and the frailty of humanity in the face of a greater force. As a plague begins to spread throughout the world, Lionel watches the people he cares about fall victim to it, or the anarchy that comes in its wake. The novel follows Lionel throughout his life, beginning in 2073. Shelley uses the novel to mourn her late friends her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron – some seem to think the novel is a tale of how the Age of Romanticism came to an end. It holds many of the same themes of Frankenstein, such as isolation and the clash between science and religion, but it stands up in its own right, and in 1960 was given the credit it is due. ![]() John MandelĨ Books like The Road The Last Man, by Mary Shelleyīest known for her classic horror novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man nearly a decade after her first novel and it is an excellent choice for those looking for books like The Road. ![]()
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