A Journal of the Plague Year (Oxford World's Classics)
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"A cunning work of art; a confidence trick of the imagination."
--Anthony Burgess
--This text refers to the
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Book Description
Long considered the most compelling account of natural disaster in all of literature, Defoe's classic reconstruction of the Great Plague of 1665 scans the streets and alleyways of stricken London in an effort to record the extreme suffering of plague victims. At once horrifying and movingly compassionate, A Journal of the Plague Year offers a nightmare vision of the modern city laid to waste.
A Journal of the Plague Year (Oxford World's Classics)
A Journal of the Plague Year (Oxford World's Classics),Daniel Defoe,Louis Landa,David Roberts,Oxford University Press, USA,0192836188,17th century,Classics,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Fiction,Historical - General,Historical fiction,History,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,London (England),Plague,19th century fiction,British Isles,Fiction / Classics,Literature/English | British Literature | 18th C,Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries
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