This beautiful jacketed hardback presents Daniel Defoe's classic A
Journal of the Plague Year, a vivid and arresting account of the impact
of London's Great Plague of 1665.
Defoe charts the progress of the plague through London's districts, how
the city attempted to fight it, and describes the horror of carts piled
high with the dead. He also examines the distressing effect of the
disease on the human psyche, personified by Solomon Eagle, renowned for
parading naked with a burning pan of charcoal on his head, denouncing
the sins of the city.
Whether novel or history or something in between, the Journal is
packed with incident and insight, as well as statistics and intriguing
facts, making a brilliant account of a city and its people in a terrible
time.
Featuring an illuminating introduction by Henry Morley, this covetable
edition makes a perfect gift or collectible for any history or
literature lover.
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