《最后一个人》内容简介
是玛丽·雪莱的一部世界末日题材，反乌托邦科幻小说。
在玛丽·雪莱的设想中，故事发生在21世纪。身为国王故友的父亲，落魄后不愿意寻求昔日好友的帮助，于是一家人过着清贫的日子；他的儿子——主人公莱昂内尔·弗尼，在父母去世后和妹妹相依为命，成为乡下的放羊娃。长大后，他和国王的儿子温莎伯爵阿德里安重逢，又认识了雷蒙德勋爵，一群人经过爱情的考验，战胜身份和财富的差距，最终幸福地生活在一起。
没想到的是，黑色的太阳出现在天上，风暴潮席卷各地海湾。一场瘟疫从非洲冒头，最终迅速席卷全球，导致欧洲遭受破坏，人类濒临灭绝。
面对人类生存危机，弗尼等人试图战胜瘟疫，帮助灾难中的同胞。但在死亡面前，人类的理智已被罪恶和狂躁完全吞噬，社会秩序不复存在。
他们试图带领为数不多的幸存者，迁移至寒冷地区以躲避瘟疫，流亡途中，众人一次次面临权力、生存、人性的冲击和拷问……
作者简介
玛丽•雪莱，科幻小说之母，19世纪天才女作家，英国著名诗人雪莱的妻子。
1818年创作了文学史上第一部真正意义上的科幻小说《弗兰肯斯坦》（科学怪人），自1816年面世以来，已经被翻译成100多种语言。根据它改编的舞台剧和电影多达几十个版本，1931年《科学怪人》的续集电影，被视为影史上重要的恐怖电影之一。它还为英语添加了一个新的单词Frankenstein：一个最终毁了它的创造者的东西。
丈夫雪莱死后，留下不足三岁的幼子，玛丽的父亲因故不愿供养二人，玛丽笔耕不辍，最终成为自食其力的专业作家。
长篇小说代表有《弗兰肯斯坦》《最后一个人》《永生者》，其一生著有16本图书和专著，多篇短篇小说、散文、游记、诗歌等。
A brief introduction to the Last Man
It's an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley.
In Mary Shelley's vision, the story takes place in the 21st century. As an old friend of the king's father, after falling down unwilling to seek the help of former friends, so the family lived in poverty; His son - the protagonist Lionel Fernie, after the death of his parents and sister to survive, become a rural sheep boy. When he grew up, he was reunited with the king's son Adrian, Earl of Windsor, and met Lord Raymond, a group of people who had weathered the test of love, overcome the gap of status and wealth, and finally lived happily together.
Unexpectedly, a black sun appeared in the sky and storm surges swept across the bays. A plague emerged from Africa and eventually spread rapidly across the globe, devastating Europe and bringing the human race to the brink of extinction.
Faced with the existential crisis of mankind, Fernie and others try to defeat the plague and help their compatriots in disaster. But in the face of death, human reason has been completely consumed by sin and mania, and social order ceases to exist.
They tried to lead the few survivors to migrate to cold areas to avoid the plague, and on the way to exile, they faced the impact of power, survival, humanity and torture again and again.
About the author
Mary Shelley, the mother of science fiction, the 19th century genius woman writer, the famous British poet Shelley's wife.
In 1818, he wrote the first true science fiction novel in the history of literature, Frankenstein, which has been translated into more than 100 languages since its publication in 1816. There have been dozens of stage and film adaptations, and the 1931 sequel to Frankenstein is regarded as one of the most important horror films in cinema history. It also added a new word to the English language, Frankenstein: something that ended up ruining its creator.
After the death of her husband Shelley, leaving a young son less than three years old, Mary's father was unwilling to support them for some reason, and Mary continued to write and eventually became a professional writer on her own.
His novels include "Frankenstein", "The Last Man", "The Immortal", and he wrote 16 books and monographs, many short stories, essays, travel notes, poems, and so on.
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