| A Journal of the Plague Year Contributor(s): Defoe, Daniel (Author), Goodwin, Jason (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0375757899 ISBN-13: 9780375757891 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $9.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001041024 |
| Lexile Measure: 1420 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.16" W x 8.1" (0.50 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |