A Journal Of The Plague Year
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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London, 1665: the streets fall silent, the death carts rumble through the night, and a city gripped by terror watches helplessly as the bubonic plague consumes everything in its path. A Journal of the Plague Year chronicles the harrowing experiences of a London saddler, identified only as H.F., who chooses to remain in the city during the Great Plague, bearing witness to scenes of mass hysteria, civic collapse, and extraordinary human resilience. Written with the forensic precision of an eyewitness account — complete with mortality bills, parish statistics, and vivid street-level reportage — Defoe constructs a narrative so devastatingly plausible that generations of readers have mistaken it for authentic memoir. Published in 1722, more than half a century after the events it depicts, this masterwork sits at the crossroads of history, journalism, and fiction, anticipating the very form of the modern novel. Defoe's genius lies in his ability to render vast, impersonal catastrophe through the intimate lens of one ordinary man's conscience and courage, giving the plague both a human face and a moral weight that resonates far beyond its historical moment. Its themes of quarantine, social inequality, official incompetence, and the instinct for survival speak with an urgency that every new generation rediscovers with a jolt of uncomfortable recognition — making one wonder just how much, or how little, humanity has changed.
Author: Daniel Defoe
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
London, 1665: the streets fall silent, the death carts rumble through the night, and a city gripped by terror watches helplessly as the bubonic plague consumes everything in its path. A Journal of the Plague Year chronicles the harrowing experiences of a London saddler, identified only as H.F., who chooses to remain in the city during the Great Plague, bearing witness to scenes of mass hysteria, civic collapse, and extraordinary human resilience. Written with the forensic precision of an eyewitness account — complete with mortality bills, parish statistics, and vivid street-level reportage — Defoe constructs a narrative so devastatingly plausible that generations of readers have mistaken it for authentic memoir. Published in 1722, more than half a century after the events it depicts, this masterwork sits at the crossroads of history, journalism, and fiction, anticipating the very form of the modern novel. Defoe's genius lies in his ability to render vast, impersonal catastrophe through the intimate lens of one ordinary man's conscience and courage, giving the plague both a human face and a moral weight that resonates far beyond its historical moment. Its themes of quarantine, social inequality, official incompetence, and the instinct for survival speak with an urgency that every new generation rediscovers with a jolt of uncomfortable recognition — making one wonder just how much, or how little, humanity has changed.