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Defoe's reconstruction of the Great Plague of 1665 is literature's most compelling account of a natural disaster. An imaginary citizen of London wanders the stricken capital recording the appalling suffering of plague victims. The account is horrifying, yet movingly compassionate. The new introduction sheds fresh light on the relationship of "The Journal" to Pepys's diary, and a new medical note based on epidemiological research.
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"Within the texture of Defoe's prose, London becomes a living and suffering being."
"Within the texture of Defoe''s prose, London becomes a living and suffering being." (Peter Ackroyd)
"Within the texture of Defoe's prose, London becomes a living and suffering being." (Peter Ackroyd)
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"Within the texture of Defoe''s prose, London becomes a living and suffering being." (Peter Ackroyd)
"Within the texture of Defoe's prose, London becomes a living and suffering being." (Peter Ackroyd)
Defoe's classic reconstruction of the Great Plague of 1665 is the most compelling account of natural disaster in all literature. Narrated by an imaginary 'Citizen who continued all the while in London', A Journal of the Plague Year scans the streets and alleyways of the stricken capital in its effort to record the appalling suffering of plague victims. At once horrifying and movingly compassionate, it is a nightmare vision of the modern city laid to waste.
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- PublisherOxford Paperbacks
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0192826824
- ISBN 13 9780192826824
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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