A journal of the plague year
being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665
3d ed.
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Word Count
78,750 words, Guess
Page Count
315 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24362661M
- ISBN-100192553240
- OCLC Control Number621068
- OCLC Control Number722112528
- OCLC Control Number34914
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number14625076
- OCLC Control Numberjournalofplaguey1888defo
- Library of Congress Control Number79414219
Classifications
- LCCPR3404 .J6 1969
- LCCPR3404.J/
- LCCRC178.G7 L7 1888
Description
This account of the Great Plague of London (1664-65) was first published in 1722. In it Defoe describes the horrifying daily events in London city as it was besieged by bubonic plague.
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.
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- Morley's universal library -- 8
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