This account of the Great Plague of London (1664-65) was first published in 1722. In it Defoe describes the horrifying daily events in London city as it was besieged by bubonic plague.
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 Visitation in 1665
This book might be part of the Oxford world's classics series.
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299 pages
English language
Published Dec. 7, 1998 by Oxford University Press.
Subjects
- Plague -- Fiction
- London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction