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A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics) about?
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 reads A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Daniel Defoe
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307822802
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 3.55 / 5 (74 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- A Journal of the Plague Year (Oxford World's Classics) (1990)
- A journal of the plague year : written by a citizen who continued all the while in London (2009)
- A Journal of the Plague Year (Meridian Classics) (1984)
- 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 t (2018)
- A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics) (2010)
- A Journal of the Plague Year (Oxford World's Classics) (2010)
- A Journal of the plague year : being observations of memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during t (1994)
- A journal of the plague year: being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the (1966)
- A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics) (2003)
- A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR Daniel Defoe (1992)
- A Journal of the Plague Year (Oxford World's Classics) (1722)
- A Journal of the Plague Year (1908)
- A journal of the plague year : being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during th (2000)
- A journal of the plague year, & c.: being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both publick and private, which happen'd in London durin (1968)
