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The Last Man Alive

By Alexander Sutherland Neill

The world has gone quiet—can one teacher and his pupils outsmart its dangerous new rules?

imaginative suspenseful darkly humorous thought-provoking

Genres

Adventure Science Fiction Classics

What is The Last Man Alive about?

When a mysterious green cloud sweeps across the world, almost everyone is turned to stone. A teacher, his pupils and a few companions survive because they are travelling high above the Earth. Returning home, they find empty cities, wild animals and dangerous strangers. As they journey through a changed world, the children must use courage, quick thinking and teamwork to stay alive. Told with dark humour and imaginative twists, this strange adventure asks what people might do when the old rules of society suddenly disappear.

Pages

255 pages

Reading age

Junior (8-13)

This edition

1969

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