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A Journal of the Plague Year: A Classic Account of Plague, Fear, and Survival in Seventeenth-Century London
Hardcover
FantasyScience FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515428817
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Daniel Defoe turns the Great Plague of London into one of the most gripping and unsettling accounts of epidemic fear, social breakdown, survival, and human behavior ever written. Presented as the journal of a Londoner who remains in the city during the plague of 1665, the book follows the spread of disease through streets, houses, churches, markets, burial pits, public orders, rumors, quarantines, and desperate private choices.
Blending fiction, documentary realism, memory, statistics, observation, and moral reflection, A Journal of the Plague Year reads with extraordinary immediacy. Defoe captures not only the physical terror of epidemic disease but the confusion that surrounds it: false cures, official restrictions, economic disruption, isolation, charity, fraud, religious anxiety, and the struggle to understand catastrophe while still living inside it. The result is part historical novel, part imagined eyewitness report, and part study of how ordinary people behave when death becomes a daily public fact.
First published in 1722, the book remains essential for readers of classic literature, historical fiction, plague literature, London history, medical history, and works about crisis, fear, resilience, and social order under extreme pressure. Long before modern outbreak narratives, Defoe showed how epidemic life changes the meaning of neighborhood, duty, information, trust, and survival.
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