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A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, As Well Publick As Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great (Oxford World's Classics)
A Journal of the Plague Year Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences As Well Publick As Private Which Happened in London During the Last Great - Oxford World's Classics Author:Daniel Defoe, Louis A. Landa 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 n... more »ightmare vision of the modern city laid to waste.« less