This book had a great descriptive narrative of a horrible situation from someone there. The numbers supplied and the stories given in the different circumstances made the book believable and clear.
Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstructhistorically and fictionallythe Great Plague of London in 166465. Written as an eyewitness report, the novel abounds in memorable and realistic details.