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A journal of the plague year / Daniel Defoe ; edited with an introduction and notes by Cynthia Wall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plague--England--London--History--Fiction.
- Plague.
- History.
- London (England)--Social conditions--Fiction.
- London (England).
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Romans à clef.
- Diary fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 289 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Penguin, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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 lake 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.
- ISBN:
- 0140437851
- OCLC:
- 53186706
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