A journal of the plague year : being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last Great Visitation in 1665 / Daniel Defoe ; edited by Louis Landa ; with a new introduction by David Roberts.

By:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

Contributor(s):

Landa, Louis A, 1901-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The World's classicsPublication details: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990 (1991 printing)Description: xxx, 299 p. ; 19 cmISBN:

0192826824
9780192826824

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DDC classification:

823/.5 20

LOC classification:

PR3404 .J6 1990

Summary: Defoe's classic reconstruction of the Great Plague of 1665 is the most compelling account of natural disaster in all literature. Narrated by an imaginary 'Citizen who continued all the while in London', A Journal of the Plague Year scans the streets and alleyways of the stricken capital in its effort to record the appalling suffering of plague victims. At once horrifying and movingly compassionate, it is a nightmare vision of the modern city laid to waste.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxv]-xxviii).

Defoe's classic reconstruction of the Great Plague of 1665 is the most compelling account of natural disaster in all literature. Narrated by an imaginary 'Citizen who continued all the while in London', A Journal of the Plague Year scans the streets and alleyways of the stricken capital in its effort to record the appalling suffering of plague victims. At once horrifying and movingly compassionate, it is a nightmare vision of the modern city laid to waste.

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