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A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics)

by Daniel Defoe

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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.

Synopsis:

Defoe's rendering of Great Plague of London (1664-65) was first published in 1722. In it Defoe describes, with masterly detail, the horrifying daily events in London as it was besieged by bubonic plague and attendant ills. A work that walks the line between fiction and nonfiction and remains one of the great fictionalized historical narratives of all time.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780375757891

Introduction:

Goodwin, Jason

Publisher:

Modern Library

Introduction by:

Goodwin, Jason

Introduction:

Goodwin, Jason

Author:

Defoe, Daniel

Author:

Goodwin, Jason

Location:

New York

Subject:

Historical

Subject:

History

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

Historical - General

Subject:

London

Subject:

Plague

Subject:

Historical fiction

Subject:

Great Fire, London, England, 1

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

2001

Edition Number:

1st ed.

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Modern Library Classics

Publication Date:

20011131

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

272

Dimensions:

8.10x5.16x.60 in. .50 lbs.

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"Synopsis" by Libri, Defoe's rendering of Great Plague of London (1664-65) was first published in 1722. In it Defoe describes, with masterly detail, the horrifying daily events in London as it was besieged by bubonic plague and attendant ills. A work that walks the line between fiction and nonfiction and remains one of the great fictionalized historical narratives of all time.