A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe

Overview

In this era of pandemic fears, the gripping tale of the Great Plague that brought Europe to its knees in the mid-1600s is a surprisingly timely read. Defoe's fictionalized account of life in plague-stricken 1665 London is a harrowing and suspenseful page-turner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781389898495
Publisher:	Heffner Publishing
Publication date:	01/12/2022
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

London-born Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) pursued a variety of careers including merchant, soldier, secret agent, and political pamphleteer. He wrote books on economics, history, biography, and crime. But he is best remembered for his fiction, which he began to write late in his life and which includes the novels Moll Flanders, Roxana, and the celebrated Robinson Crusoe.