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A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, is Mary Shelley’s most important novel after . With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.