A Journal of the Plague Year (Hardback)
Product Description
The shocking immediacy of Daniel Defoe's description of a plague-wracked city makes it one of the most convincing accounts of the Great Plague of 1665 ever written. Defoe's art is a concealed one. The deceptive simplicity of his Journal leads the reader not only to a minute understanding of the plague itself, but also to an extraordinarily heightened sense of London in 1665 as a living, suffering, entity. This is realism at its best, and it is no surprise that it has become the prototype of all accounts of great cities in times of epidemic, siege, or occupation.
Details
- SKU:9780783891675
- SKU10:0783891679
- Series:Thorndike Classics
- Publisher:Thorndike Press
- Date Published:Dec 2000
- Large Print:Yes
- Pages:343
- Weight lbs:1.5
- Dimensions:6.3 X 9.43 X 1.16
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