num_pages: 250
description: Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the time; the mass panics of a frightened citizenry; and the solitary travails of Defoe's narrator, a man who decides to remain in the city through it all, chronicling the course of events with an unwavering eye. Defoe's Journal remains perhaps the greatest account of a natural disaster ever written.This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the original edition published in 1722.
language: English
title: A Journal of the Plague Year
titlecomplete: A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics)
genres: Historical, School, 18th Century, Medicine, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Nonfiction, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 10434
places: London, England
publisher: Modern Library