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Warbler Classics
A Journal Of The Plague Year (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
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9781957240978
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9781957240978
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When the plague swept through London in 1665 and killed twenty percent of its population who ended up in hastily dug mass graves, five-year old Daniel Defoe survived because his family left the city. In 1722 the author of Robinson Crusoe and other classic books published this path-breaking account of the human responses to a horrendous pandemic with no visible cause, based on an uncle's journals. Combining unusual curiosity and actual historical data with deep compassion, Defoe chronicles his fellow-citizen's disbelief and denial at the first cases, the desperate escapes from a ravaged London, and the alternately charitable and callous but heartrending stories of those who lived through it or died. A Journal of the Plague Year reveals with undiminished urgency how we make sense of our role in a cataclysmic historical event when many of the rules, expectations, and acts of creating meaning have been upended.
| Author: Daniel Defoe |
| Publisher: Warbler Classics |
| Publication Date: Apr 02, 2020 |
| Number of Pages: 276 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1957240970 |
| ISBN-13: 9781957240978 |
A Journal Of The Plague Year (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$14.95
$12.60
Sale 16%
When the plague swept through London in 1665 and killed twenty percent of its population who ended up in hastily dug mass graves, five-year old Daniel Defoe survived because his family left the city. In 1722 the author of Robinson Crusoe and other classic books published this path-breaking account of the human responses to a horrendous pandemic with no visible cause, based on an uncle's journals. Combining unusual curiosity and actual historical data with deep compassion, Defoe chronicles his fellow-citizen's disbelief and denial at the first cases, the desperate escapes from a ravaged London, and the alternately charitable and callous but heartrending stories of those who lived through it or died. A Journal of the Plague Year reveals with undiminished urgency how we make sense of our role in a cataclysmic historical event when many of the rules, expectations, and acts of creating meaning have been upended.
| Author: Daniel Defoe |
| Publisher: Warbler Classics |
| Publication Date: Apr 02, 2020 |
| Number of Pages: 276 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1957240970 |
| ISBN-13: 9781957240978 |
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