{"product_id":"journal-of-the-plague-year-paperback","title":"Journal of the Plague Year - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Defoe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCelia Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJack Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Defoe's \u003cem\u003eJournal of the Plague Year\u003c\/em\u003e is the most vivid first-person account of a pandemic in the English language. The narrative professes to be the daily musings of one \"H.F.,\" a saddler \"who continued all the while in London\" during the Great Plague of 1665, England's deadliest bubonic plague outbreak in centuries. Defoe wrote and published it a generation later, in 1722, three years after \u003cem\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/em\u003e and the same year as \u003cem\u003eMoll Flanders\u003c\/em\u003e. But while \u003cem\u003eA Journal of the Plague Year\u003c\/em\u003e shares a devotion to verisimilitude with other works of fiction of the day--many contemporary fictions purported to be \"histories\" or \"true stories\"--its approach to character is distinctive, as H.F. often recedes into the background. The novel's depiction of a diseased city and of the social and religious dimensions of a pandemic seem to anticipate our own age. This edition allows readers to appreciate the novel's complexity and apparent contradictions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe introduction and historical appendices (which include materials on plagues and the spiritual, civic, and scientific responses to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pandemics) make Defoe's book and its world accessible to modern readers. Three new maps show England, London, and H.F.'s neighborhood in 1665.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJack Lynch\u003c\/strong\u003e is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. \u003cstrong\u003eCelia Barnes\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Lawrence University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.99 x 5.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46923206525067,"sku":"9781554816071","price":41.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/ffaZyU77T19781554816071.webp?v=1778719644","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/journal-of-the-plague-year-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}