A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics)
Editorial Reviews
Peter Ackroyd
"Within the texture of Defoe's prose, London becomes a living and suffering being."
Book Description
In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe vividly chronicles the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed-the streets and alleyways deserted, the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors, the dead-carts on their way to the pits-and encounter the horrified citizens of the city, as fear, isolation, and hysteria take hold. The shocking immediacy of Defoe's description of plague-racked London makes this one of the most convincing accounts of the Great Plague ever written.
A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics)
A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics),Daniel Defoe,Cynthia Wall,Penguin Classics,0140437851,17th century,Classics,Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731,Fiction,Fiction - Historical,Historical - General,History,Literary,London (England),Plague,16th to 18th century fiction,Classic fiction,Fiction / Classics
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