The Last Man Volume 1 Chapter 1

from The Mary Shelley Library · host Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In which a young narrator recounts the faded splendour and ruin of his father—a once-celebrated companion of kings now fallen to desolation—and the harsh orphaned existence he and his sister endure amid the wilds of Cumberland. Amidst the rugged landscape and a youthful temperament marked by rebellion and yearning, the tale unfolds of a spirit poised between untamed freedom and the beckoning promise of a nobler fate.

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