A Journal of the Plague Year (1960) - Folio Society edition

A Journal of the Plague Year (1960)

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A Journal of the Plague Year (1960) - Folio Society edition
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A Journal of the Plague Year (1960)
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A Journal of the Plague Year (1960)

Daniel Defoe
Edition year 1960
Binding Buckram
Illustrator Peter Pendrey
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 248
Dimensions 22.7 × 15 cm

Edition details

A Journal of the Plague Year, Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences as Well Public and Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation of 1665 by Daniel Defoe. 14 woodcuts by Peter Pendrey. Introduction by Kenneth Hopkins. Map endleaves. Bound in black buckram blocked with a silver and impressed design. Dark red slipcase. 248pp. 22.7x15cm.

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Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year is a fictionalised but meticulously detailed account of the Great Plague of London in 1665. Written decades after the event, it presents the epidemic through the observations of a narrator moving around the city. Defoe describes quarantine, fear, mortality and social disruption with such realism that the work often reads like eyewitness testimony.

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