A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London
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4.2 • 26 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London.
GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2006
16 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
382
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
200.1
KB
Customer Reviews
TonyJones
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INTERESTING ACCOUNT IN SARS-COV-2 / COVID 19 PANDEMIC BUT NEEDED AN EDITOR
I read the during the SARS-Cov-2 / Covid 19 pandemic to see what parallels there might be.
There were many including social isolation / quarantine / businesses shutting / public authorities overwhelmed (though not many existed in 1665) / conspiracy theories / high death rate etc.
However, accepting that the style of writing is dated the author endlessly repeated himself. This book could probably have about a third of its length cut by a good editor and still told a good story, probably a better one.