Lionel Verney, the boy who will become The Last Man, grows up with his sister Perdita in the mid-21st century English Lake District’s lowest class.

View of Lodore Falls, Derwentwater; Drawing by Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, 1810; The British Museum
Mary Shelley’s 1826 Novel, Revised and Edited for Modern Readers
Lionel Verney, the boy who will become The Last Man, grows up with his sister Perdita in the mid-21st century English Lake District’s lowest class.