A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe

Descriere A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe

\nDefoe'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. \nThis Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the original edition published in 1722.\n

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Modern Library

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9780375757891

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