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What did Mary Shelley's 1826 novel *The Last Man* describe?
Mary Shelley's *The Last Man*, published in 1826 — eight years after *Frankenstein* — is set in the late 21st century and follows Lionel Verney, who narrates the gradual extinction of humanity by a global plague. It is widely considered the first modern pandemic novel. Critics in 1826 hated it; modern readers have rediscovered it since the 1960s.
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The Plague Novel Mary Shelley Wrote in 1826 Eight years after Frankenstein, Mary Shelley published a novel about a global pandemic that kills everyone except one narrator. Critics hated it. They had reasons.