The Last Man: or, Omegarus and Syderia: A Romance in Futurity
( French - Le dernier homme - 1805 )
novel by Jean Baptiste Francois Xavier Cousin de Grainville
translated by uncredited
Published: R. Dutton - hardback - 1806
ISBN: none
Arno Press - hardback - 1978
ISBN: 040510992X / 9780405109928
translated by Margaret Clarke and Ian F. Clarke
Wesleyan University Press - hardback - 2002 ( in Early Classics of Science Fiction )
ISBN: 0819565490 / 9780819565495
Wesleyan University Press - trade paperback - 2003
ISBN: 081956608X / 9780819566089
synopsis
A powerful story of the demise of the human race. Drawing on the traditional account in Revelations, a masterful imagination is evident in the vast scale of the action as Omegarus, the Last Adam, and Syderia, the Last Eve, are led toward the moment when "the light of the sun and the stars is extinguished."
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( French - Le dernier homme - 1805 )
novel by Jean Baptiste Francois Xavier Cousin de Grainville
translated by uncredited
Published: R. Dutton - hardback - 1806
ISBN: none
Arno Press - hardback - 1978
ISBN: 040510992X / 9780405109928
translated by Margaret Clarke and Ian F. Clarke
Wesleyan University Press - hardback - 2002 ( in Early Classics of Science Fiction )
ISBN: 0819565490 / 9780819565495
Wesleyan University Press - trade paperback - 2003
ISBN: 081956608X / 9780819566089
synopsis
A powerful story of the demise of the human race. Drawing on the traditional account in Revelations, a masterful imagination is evident in the vast scale of the action as Omegarus, the Last Adam, and Syderia, the Last Eve, are led toward the moment when "the light of the sun and the stars is extinguished."
awards
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