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 [Anglais] [Broché]

The London of an earlier period - 1665 - is brought vividly and pungently back to life. (Cannock and Rugeley Chronicle )

Gruesomely compulsive reading. (Colin Waters, Sunday Herald ) --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .

'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death!' Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague of 1665 on the city of London. Defoe's fictional narrator, known only as 'H. F.', recounts in vivid detail the progress of the disease and the desperate attempts to contain it. He catalogues the rising death toll and the transformation of the city as its citizens flee and those who remain live in fear and despair. Above all it is the stories of appalling human suffering and grief that give Defoe's extraordinary fiction its compelling historical veracity. This revised edition includes comprehensive notes, a complete topographical index, and a new introduction to the greatest work of plague literature. --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) had a variety of careers including merchant, soldier, secret agent, and political pamphleteer. He wrote economic texts, history, biography, crime, and most famously fiction, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders and Roxana. Cynthia Wall is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia. --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .