A Journal Of The Plague Year
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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In the shadow of one of history's most devastating catastrophes, Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year presents an unflinching, viscerally immediate account of London's catastrophic bubonic plague of 1665, narrated through the eyes of a solitary saddle-maker known only as H.F., who chooses to remain in the city as death closes in around him. With the authority of an eyewitness and the craft of a master storyteller, Defoe chronicles the city's descent into fear and chaos — the mass graves, the shuttered houses marked with red crosses, the desperate flight of the wealthy, and the stoic endurance of the poor — in prose so vivid and precise it reads less like fiction and the more like a dispatches from the frontline of catastrophe. First published in 1722, nearly six decades after the events it portrays, the novel stands as a landmark of English literature, blurring the boundaries between journalism, history, and fiction in a way that would define the novel as a form. Defoe's genius lies in his documentary instinct — his ability to ground terror in statistics, street names, and parish records — lending the narrative an almost unbearable authenticity. Resonating powerfully across centuries of subsequent epidemics and public health crises, A Journal of the Plague Year remains a work of profound moral and political urgency, raising timeless questions about civic duty, human compassion, and survival that will leave the reader to wonder: what would you have done?
Author: Daniel Defoe
Format: Paperback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of one of history's most devastating catastrophes, Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year presents an unflinching, viscerally immediate account of London's catastrophic bubonic plague of 1665, narrated through the eyes of a solitary saddle-maker known only as H.F., who chooses to remain in the city as death closes in around him. With the authority of an eyewitness and the craft of a master storyteller, Defoe chronicles the city's descent into fear and chaos — the mass graves, the shuttered houses marked with red crosses, the desperate flight of the wealthy, and the stoic endurance of the poor — in prose so vivid and precise it reads less like fiction and the more like a dispatches from the frontline of catastrophe. First published in 1722, nearly six decades after the events it portrays, the novel stands as a landmark of English literature, blurring the boundaries between journalism, history, and fiction in a way that would define the novel as a form. Defoe's genius lies in his documentary instinct — his ability to ground terror in statistics, street names, and parish records — lending the narrative an almost unbearable authenticity. Resonating powerfully across centuries of subsequent epidemics and public health crises, A Journal of the Plague Year remains a work of profound moral and political urgency, raising timeless questions about civic duty, human compassion, and survival that will leave the reader to wonder: what would you have done?