A journal of the plague year
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London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
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Book
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xxxviii, 289 pages ; 20 cm.
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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. A novel recounting the individual tragedies of the great plague of 1665.
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English
ISBN:
0140437851
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General Note
First published: 1723.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxiv-xxxviii).
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APA Citation (style guide)
Defoe, D., & Wall, C. (2003). A journal of the plague year. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 and Cynthia Wall. 2003. A Journal of the Plague Year. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 and Cynthia Wall, A Journal of the Plague Year. Penguin Books, 2003.
MLA Citation (style guide)Defoe, Daniel and Cynthia Wall. A Journal of the Plague Year. Penguin Books, 2003.
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