‘It was a most surprising thing, to see those Streets, which were usually so thronged, now grown desolate’
In 1665 the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal, written nearly sixty years later, Defoe vividly chronicled the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed: the streets and alleyways deserted; the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors; the dead-carts on their way to the pits. And he recounts the horrifying stories of the citizens he encounters, as fear, isolation and hysteria take hold. A Journal is both a fascinating historical document and a supreme work of imaginative reconstruction.
This edition contains a new introduction, an appendix on the Plague, a topographical index and maps of contemporary London, and reproduces Anthony Burgess’s original introduction.
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‘It was a most surprising thing, to see those Streets, which were usually so thronged, now grown desolate’
In 1665 the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal, written nearly sixty years later, Defoe vividly chronicled the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed: the streets and alleyways deserted; the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors; the dead-carts on their way to the pits. And he recounts the horrifying stories of the citizens he encounters, as fear, isolation and hysteria take hold. A Journal is both a fascinating historical document and a supreme work of imaginative reconstruction.
This edition contains a new introduction, an appendix on the Plague, a topographical index and maps of contemporary London, and reproduces Anthony Burgess’s original introduction.
Imprint | Penguin Classics |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | May 2003 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | August 2003 |
Authors | Daniel Defoe |
Editors | Christopher Bristow |
Introduction by | Anthony Burgess |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - B-format |
Pages | 336 |
Edition | 2 Ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-043785-0 |
Barcode | 9780140437850 |
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LSN | 0-14-043785-1 |