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" A Journal of the Plague Year. "
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BL
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873477
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| Main Entry
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Defoe, Daniel.
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A Journal of the Plague Year.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: OUP Oxford,, 1990.
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| Series Statement
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Oxford World's Classics
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1 online resource (475 pages).
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| ISBN
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0191624934
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: 9780191624933
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0199572836
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9780199572830
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| Contents
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Note on The Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Daniel Defoe; A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR; Appendix: A Medical Note; Explanatory Notes; Map: The City of London in the late seventeenth century; Topographical Index; Footnotes.
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| Abstract
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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 attempts 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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Fiction.
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Literature.
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823.5
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Landa, Louis.
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Roberts, David.
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