Le Dernier Homme
... that Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville's 1805 novel Le Dernier Homme (The Last Man) was the first work of modern speculative fiction to describe the end of the world?
... that <a href="./Jean-Baptiste_Cousin_de_Grainville" id="mwB7I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville">Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville</a>'s 1805 novel <i id="mwB7M"><b id="mwB7Q"><a href="./Le_Dernier_Homme" id="mwB7U" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Le Dernier Homme">Le Dernier Homme</a></b></i> (<i id="mwB7Y">The Last Man</i>) was the first work of modern <a href="./Speculative_fiction" id="mwB7c" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Speculative fiction">speculative fiction</a> to describe the end of the world?