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Journal of the Plague Year
by Journal of the Plague Year
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Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the time; the mass panics of a frightened citizenry; and the solitary travails of Defoe's narrator, a man who decides to remain in the city through it all, chronicling the course of events with an unwavering eye. Defoe's Journal remains perhaps the greatest account of a natural disaster ever written.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the original edition published in 1722.
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- Modern Library Brand
- Nov 13, 2001 Pub Date:
- 9780375757891 ISBN-13:
- 0375757899 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 7.96 in * 0.63 in * 5.18 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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