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.
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