It was a time of death and dying. Thousands of people fled before the devastating onslaught of the Black Death, but the horror was unrelenting. In The Great Mortality, John Kelly takes us back to "one of the seminal events of the last millennium"--drawing from the pages of memoirs, poetry, letters, and fictional accounts. Read more about disasters in literature:

• The Flood
• The Plague
• The Great Mortality
• Books About the Plague
• The Skin of Our Teeth
• Atlantis

Discover how the world falls apart--in literature.