A Journal of the Plague Year - eBook
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A Journal of the Plague Year - eBook  -     By: Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year - eBook

HarperCollins Publishers / 2013 / ePub

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Title: A Journal of the Plague Year - eBook
By: Daniel Defoe
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN: 9781443426503
ISBN-13: 9781443426503
Stock No: WW70223EB

Publisher's Description

Set against the backdrop of the Great Plague of London in the seventeenth century, Daniel Defoe’s classic novel, A Journal of the Plague Year, continues to be distinguished for its intense, honest, and realistic portrayal of the times. Over the course of a single year, the novel’s narrator examines events both political and personal, and comments on the social, political, economic, and human impact of the epidemic.

Although originally read as non-fiction when it was published, A Journal of the Plague Year has over time been proven to be fiction, but is remarkable for its use of factual statistical analysis of the plague, and specific references to actual neighbourhoods and individual stories.

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Author Bio

English author Daniel Defoe was at times a trader, political activist, criminal, spy and writer, and is considered to be one of England’s first journalists. A prolific writer, Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names over the course of a career in which he produced more than five hundred written works. Defoe is best-known for his novels detailing the adventures of the castaway Robinson Crusoe, which helped establish and popularize the novel in eighteenth century England. In addition to Robinson Crusoe, Defoe penned other famous works including Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, Captain Jack, Moll Flanders and Roxana. Defoe died in 1731.

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