{"product_id":"2026200017526-secondhand-a-journal-of-the-plague-year","title":"A Journal Of The Plague Year","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nFirst 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216207454427,"sku":"2026200017526-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c8e5e308-59a1-41e6-a38f-ce01b4d30d6e.png?v=1788405349","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017526-secondhand-a-journal-of-the-plague-year","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}