TY - BOOK N2 - It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.--From publisher's description. AB - It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.--From publisher's description. T1 - The last man / DA - [2008] CY - Oxford ; CY - New York : AU - Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, AU - Paley, Morton D. CN - PR5397 CN - PR5397 PB - Oxford University Press, PP - Oxford ; PP - New York : PY - [2008] ID - 336183 KW - Twenty-first century KW - End of the world KW - Plague SN - 9780199552351 (pbk.) SN - 0199552355 (pbk.) TI - The last man / ER -