# The Last Man

Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

Genre: Precursors of Science Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18247

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Last+Man+Shelley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I visited Naples in the year 1818. On the 8th of December of that year, my companion and I crossed the Bay, to visit the antiquities which are scattered on the shores of Baiæ. The translucent and shining waters of the calm sea covered fragments of old Roman villas, which were interlaced by sea-weed, and received diamond tints from the chequering of the sun-beams; the blue and pellucid element was such as Galatea might have skimmed in her car of mother of pearl; or Cleopatra, more fitly than the Nile, have chosen as the path of her magic ship. Though it was winter, the atmosphere seemed more appropriate to early spring; and its genial warmth contributed to inspire those sensations of placi...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-last-man-18247/chapters/1/index.md)