“We placed his remains under a cypress, the upright mountain being scooped out to receive them. And then Clara said, ‘If you wish me to live, take me from hence. There is something in this scene of transcendent beauty, in these trees, and hills and waves, that for ever whisper to me, leave thy cumbrous flesh, and make a part of us. I earnestly entreat you to take me away.”
Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Book:The Last Man
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The Last Man
A gripping narrative that follows the last surviving man as he grapples with the aftermath of a mysterious plague that has wiped out civilization. more
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