TITLE:
A journal of the plague year, being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last Great Visitation in 1665; edited, with an introduction, by Louis Landa.
Publication Date:
1969
Publication Information:
London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford U.P.,
Physical Description:
xlvi, 298 [i.e. 300] p. : 4 facsims.
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Bibliography Note:
Bibliography: p. [xli]-xlii.
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780192553249
