A Journal of the Plague Year

Category: Book
By (author): Defoe, Daniel
Introduction By: Goodwin, Jason
Series: Modern Library Classics
Subject:  FICTION / Classics
  FICTION / General
  FICTION / Historical
  FICTION / Literary
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: November 2001
Format: Book-paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.99in x 5.21in x 0.60in
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From The Publisher*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.
Review Quote*"A cunning work of art; a confidence trick of the imagination."
--Anthony Burgess
Biographical NoteJason Goodwin's works include Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire; A Time for Tea: Travels Through China and India in Search of Tea; and On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul.