The Last Man

As part of its Early Classics of Science Fiction series, Wesleyan presents The Last Man, first published in 1805 by Jean-Baptiste Francois Xavier Cousin de Grainville (1746-1805), in a new translation by I.F. and M. Clarke. This apocalyptic tale provided the prototype for later 19th-century writers like H.G. Wells who speculated on the end of humankind in their fiction.