Ebook: A Journal of the Plague Year.
Author: Defoe Daniel, Roberts David, Landa Louis
- Tags: Literature, Fiction
- Series: Oxford world’s classics.
- Year: 1990
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- City: Oxford
- Language: English
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A Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death!'Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague of 1665 on the city of London. Defoe's fictional narrator, known only as 'H. F.', recounts in vivid detail the progress of the disease and the desperate Read more...