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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 during the last great visitation in 1665 ; And written by a citizen who continued all the while in London
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A classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct--historically and fictionally--t...
A classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct--historically and fictionally--the Great Plague of London in 1664-65. Written as an eyewitness report, the novel abounds in memorable and realistic details.
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- now newly introduced to the public by Mr. James Sutherland, of London & Berkshire, and embellish'd with notable illustrations by Signor Domenico Gnoli, of Rome
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- English
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- New York : Heritage Press, 1968
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- xvi, 270 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of color plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
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- ocm30015089
- Arrangement and typography by Richard Ellis.
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