Step into the quarantined streets of 17th-century London as the bubonic plague descends, told through the meticulous, harrowing observations of a fictional saddler, H.F. Daniel Defoe, with chilling verisimilitude, reconstructs the city's descent into chaos: the mounting death tolls, the mass graves, the desperate flight of some and the stoic, often fatal, endurance of others. This isn't just a chronicle of disease; it's a profound sociological study of a metropolis under siege, detailing everything from official decrees and the rise of quack doctors to the profound psychological toll on individuals driven to madness, religious fervor, or quiet despair by an invisible enemy.
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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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 Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London
Project Gutenberg · 380 pages
