A Journal of the Plague Year Contributor(s): Defoe, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486419193 ISBN-13: 9780486419190 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $4.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct -- historically and fictionally -- the Great Plague of London in 1664-65. Written as an eyewitness report, the novel abounds in memorable and realistic details. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2001032402 |
Lexile Measure: 1420 |
Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.26" W x 8.32" (0.33 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 of bubonic plague -- known as the Black Death -- that ravaged England in 1664-1665. |