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The history of human tryst with epidemics and pandemics is as ancient as history itself. Writers down the ages have also projected these crises in their works. They in their works underlined the impact of epidemics and pandemics on the globe and society along with the portrayal of the resilience of human minds to tackle them. Giovanni Boccaccio�s The Decameron, Albert Camus�s The Plague, Defoe�s A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen who Continued all the While in London, History of the Plague in England, and In Due Preparations for the Plague as well for Soul as Body, Jack London�s The Scarlet Plague from the western literature and Suryakant Tripathi Nirala�s memoir, A Life Misspent, Tagore�s Chaturanga from Indian Literature have been analysed in this paper to see how Literature while narrating pandemics down the ages celebrates the enduring range of human responses charged with spirit of resilience and rejuvenation that stand against the onslaught of disease and death.