Overview
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.
- | Author: Daniel Defoe
- | Publisher: Modern Library
- | Publication Date: Nov 13, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0375757899
- | ISBN-13: 9780375757891
