A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics)
✍ Scribed by Defoe, Daniel
- Book ID
- 107820729
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 646 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Standards
- ISBN-13
- 9780375757891
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✦ Synopsis
A Journal of the Plague Year is the novel by Daniel Defoe that fictionalizes the plagues in Europe after 1665. Taking a single man's account of the Great Plague in London Defoe takes us into the neighborhoods and the houses that the plague impacted.
✦ Subjects
Историческая проза
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