A Journal Of The Plague Year (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Warbler Classics
ISBN13:
9781957240978
$14.95
When the plague swept through London in 1665 and killed twenty percent of its population who ended up in hastily dug mass graves, five-year old Daniel Defoe survived because his family left the city. In 1722 the author of Robinson Crusoe and other classic books published this path-breaking account of the human responses to a horrendous pandemic with no visible cause, based on an uncle's journals. Combining unusual curiosity and actual historical data with deep compassion, Defoe chronicles his fellow-citizen's disbelief and denial at the first cases, the desperate escapes from a ravaged London, and the alternately charitable and callous but heartrending stories of those who lived through it or died. A Journal of the Plague Year reveals with undiminished urgency how we make sense of our role in a cataclysmic historical event when many of the rules, expectations, and acts of creating meaning have been upended.
- | Author: Daniel Defoe
- | Publisher: Warbler Classics
- | Publication Date: Apr 02, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 276 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1957240970
- | ISBN-13: 9781957240978
- Author:
- Daniel Defoe
- Publisher:
- Warbler Classics
- Publication Date:
- Apr 02, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 276 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1957240970
- ISBN-13:
- 9781957240978