This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Defoe deftly entangles the reader in a saga of an entire city's mortal combat with an enemy more powerful and inscrutable than any previously known. Written about the great London plague of 1665, the novel was in direct response to a fresh outbreak of the infection in Marseilles in 1720. While Robinson Crusoe gave rise to a host of desert island tales, A Journal of the Plague Year spawned decades of survival stories and the entire genre of historical fiction.
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Defoe deftly entangles the reader in a saga of an entire city's mortal combat with an enemy more powerful and inscrutable than any previously known. Written about the great London plague of 1665, the novel was in direct response to a fresh outbreak of the infection in Marseilles in 1720. While Robinson Crusoe gave rise to a host of desert island tales, A Journal of the Plague Year spawned decades of survival stories and the entire genre of historical fiction.
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ISBN-13: | 9781411468498 |
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Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
Publication date: | 03/13/2012 |
Series: | Barnes & Noble Digital Library |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 280 |
File size: | 748 KB |
Age Range: | 3 Months to 18 Years |
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