The Last Man

This Norton Critical Edition includes:- The 1826 Henry Colburn edition of the novel, the only one approved by Mary Shelley.- Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Chris Washington.- A rich selection of contextual documents-twenty-six in all-pertaining to The Last Man's background and sources, reception and impact, other related works by Shelley, and other "Last Man" texts.- Fourteen carefully chosen critical assessments on the novel's major themes.- A chronology of Mary Shelley's life and work and a selected bibliography