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Books: A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe Click Image For More Info Click HERE for ... Prices (new/used) Availability Additional Images Similar Links More Reviews Additional Information Paperback: 256 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x 8.05 x 5.17 Publisher: Random House (Paper); 1st edition (November 13, 2001) In-Print Editions: Hardcover , Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Abridged), Hardcover (Large Print), Audio Download (Audible.com) |All Editions Customers who bought this book also bought: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 8: 1667 by Samuel Pepys, et al (Paperback) The Plague by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert (Translator) (Paperback) Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe, Virginia Woolf (Introduction) (Paperback) The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by David Herlihy, Samuel K. Cohn (Editor) (Paperback) Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe (Paperback) Book 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; 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. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the original edition published in 1722. More Reviews