Condition: Very good condition for a used book! Minimal wear. See images for the condition of this book.
Blurb: "Bring out your dead! The ceaseless chant of doom echoed through a city of emptied streets and filled grave pits. For this was London in the year 1665, the Year of the Great Plague.... In 1721, when the Black Death again threatened the European Continent, Daniel Defoe wrote A Journal of the Plague Year to alert an indifferent populace to the horror that was almost upon them. Through the eyes of a saddler who had chosen to remain while multitudes fled, the master realist vividly depicted a plague-stricken city. He re-enacted the terror of a helpless people caught in a tragedy they could not comprehend: the weak preying on teh dying, the strong administering to the sick, the sinful orgies of the cynical, the quiet faith of the pious. With dramatic insight he captured for all time teh death throes of a great city.
With a forward by J.H. Plumb.
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