David K. reviewed on 8/19/2006 + 36 more book reviews

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.

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