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1) The last man
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The story draws from the book of Revelations. In this story, the narrator is selected by the Celestial Spirit to witness the days of the Last Man (Omegarus) and Last Woman (Syderia), since there will be no descendants to learn of their tale. We learn that Omegarus is the only child born in an infertile Europe, and thus he created quite a sensation when he was born. He was said to be the father of a new race, but when the infertility continues there...
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First English edition of a classic Verne novel. Describes the exploits of Berber nomads and European travelers in Saharan Africa. The European characters arrive to study the feasibility of flooding a low-lying region of the Sahara desert to create an inland sea and open up the interior of Northern Africa to trade. In the end, however, the protagonists' pride in humanity's potential to control and reshape the world is humbled by a cataclysmic earthquake...
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