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Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations of Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, As Well Public As Private, Which Happened in Lond
Pros: An intriguing telling of the plague Cons: The statistics in the beginning
I am an avid reader of the classics, and so, when I read this book, I was quite surprised at it. Although it was written nearly 200 years ago, it is understandable and easy to read. The descriptions it in seem like Defoe actually remembered his...
Pros: Highly readable account of the plague of 1665, and an absorbing study of human nature. Cons: Alleged first-hand nature of the account does not ring true.
A Journal Of The Plague Year is written by the same author who wrote Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe. Unlike Robinson Crusoe, which I had had rammed down my throat since the sixth grade, I read A Journal Of The Plague Year...
Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe vividly chronicles the progress ...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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