A Journal of the Plague Year.
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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 desperateattempts to contain it. He catalogues the rising death toll and the transformation of the city as its citizens flee and those who remain live in fear and despair. Above all it is the.
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Характеристики
- ФІО Автора
- Daniel
David
Defoe
Landa
Louis
Roberts - Мова
- Англійська
- Серія
- Oxford world’s classics.
- ISBN
- 9780191624933
- Дата виходу
- 1990
