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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

The Great Mortality by John Kelly

Thursday August 4, 2005

John Kelly's The Great Mortality is a contemporary account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- what we call the Black Death, and what the generation who lived through it called la moria grandissima: "the great mortality."

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