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A Journal of the Plague Year
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Series: Modern Library Classics
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ISBN10: 0375757899
ISBN13: 9780375757891
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Nov 13 2001
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.16 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375757891
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Nov 13 2001
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.16 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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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