by Daniel Defoe · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430158
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«A Journal of the Plague Year» is the historical novel by Daniel Defoe, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (256 pages, in English).
In 1665, the Great Plague ravages London and an anonymous citizen who remains in the city records what he sees: streets emptying, houses marked with a cross, carts with the dead and mass graves. The narrative describes the fear and desperation of the inhabitants, but also their resilience, with a chronicle-like tone that brings it close to real testimony.
Work originally published in 1722; this Penguin Classics edition dates from 1966, edited by Anthony Burgess and Christopher Bristow, with an introduction by Anthony Burgess.
For readers of English classics and historical fiction, with an interest in everyday life in seventeenth-century London.
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724). He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson.
