A Journal of the Plague Year (Warbler Classics) - Daniel Defoe - Libros - Warbler Classics - 9781734852608 - 31 de marzo de 2020
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A Journal of the Plague Year (Warbler Classics)

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.


278 pages

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 31 de marzo de 2020
ISBN13 9781734852608
Editores Warbler Classics
Páginas 278
Dimensiones 133 × 203 × 16 mm   ·   318 g
Lengua Inglés  

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