A Journal of the Plague Year -- Daniel Defoe

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, <b>A Journal of the Plague Year</b> 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. <p/>This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the original edition published in 1722.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Daniel Defoe<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 11/13/2001<br><b>Pages:</b> 272<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.50lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.10h x 5.16w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375757891<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Jason Goodwin's works include<b> Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire</b>; <b>A Time for Tea: Travels Through China</b> <b>and</b> <b>India in Search of Tea</b>; and <b>On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul</b>.</p><p></p>