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A Journal of the Plague Year (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Daniel Defoe, PaperbackOriginal price was: $14.95.$12.71Current price is: $12.71.
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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 path-breaking account of the human responses to a horrendous pandemic with no visible cause, based on an uncle’s journals. Combining unusual curiosity and actual historical data with deep compassion, Defoe chronicles his fellow-citizen’s disbelief and denial at the first cases, the desperate escapes from a ravaged London, and the alternately charitable and callous but heartrending stories of those who lived through it or died. A Journal of the Plague Year reveals with undiminished urgency how we make sense of our role in a cataclysmic historical event when many of the rules, expectations, and acts of creating meaning have been upended.
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Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Daniel Defoe, Ulrich Baer (Afterword by)
Published: 04/02/2020
Publisher: Warbler Classics
ISBN: 9781957240978
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.63d
Additional information
Weight | 0.7 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8 × 5.25 × 0.63 in |
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