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The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eyewitness account of the last great plague in England.

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"The surprise 'must-read' for people facing the Covid-19 epidemic." --The Telegraph

Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great Plague of 1665. Purporting to be an eye-witness, Defoe's fictional narrator recounts in vivid detail the rising death toll and the... Read Full Overview

A nice illustrated edition of this classic to commemorate the 300th anniversary of its publication. This book is very relavant in the face of the 2020 world-wide pandemic. Our version has all the original text and 18 illustrations and maps.

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The haunting cry of "Bring out your dead " by a bell-ringing collector of 17th-century plague victims has filled readers across the centuries with cold terror. The chilling cry survives in historical consciousness largely as a result of this classic 1722 account of the epidemic... Read Full Overview

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is an acclaimed classic that chronicles the devastating effects of the bubonic plague in London during 1665. Written in a unique first-person narrative style, Defoe takes readers through the grim details of a city devastated by this... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731, first published in March 1722.The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though... Read Full Overview

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About A Journal of the Plague year by Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. This novel is an account of... Read Full Overview

This beautiful jacketed hardback presents Daniel Defoe's classic A Journal of the Plague Year, a vivid and arresting account of the impact of London's Great Plague of 1665.

When the plague swept through London in 1665 and killed twenty percent of its population who ended up in hastily dug mass graves, five-year old Daniel Defoe survived because his family left the city. In 1722 the author of Robinson Crusoe and other classic books published this... Read Full Overview

The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. Although it purports to have been written only a few years after the event, it actually was written in the years just prior to the book's first... Read Full Overview