The Last Man
Mary Shelley, the author of [*Frankenstein*][1], wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826. Its first person narrative tells the story of our world standing at the end of the twenty-first century and - after the devastating effects of a plague - at the end of humanity. In the book Shelley writes of weaving this story from a discovery of prophetic writings uncovered in a cave near Naples. The Last Man was made into a 2008 film.


  [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL450125W/Frankenstein
Fiction, Plague, Twenty-first century, End of the world, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher  William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. ([Source][1].)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley