The plague and the city

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In recent months Albert Camus' remarkable novel The Plague has been on everyone's lips. Logical... The popular story is not however the only one directly related to a pandemic like the one that afflicts us this year and the truth is that a narrative text as interesting as Diary of the Plague Year has hardly been taken into account. in which Daniel Defoe narrates the circumstances arising from the bubonic plague that killed at least one hundred thousand people in th century London. Long report novel of manners and much more the book that Alba Editorial now presents is in reality an exhaustive account of the epidemic that devastated London and the surrounding areas of the city between the years and .

Published for the first time in Diary of the Year of the Plague surprises one page after another for the thoroughness of the work and also for the forcefulness of many of its considerations such as the one that already lets us know in the first section of the narrative that UAE Phone Number the catastrophe put an end to the work. and “the bread” of the poorest or as the one that refers to debauchery of the most varied truth be told in such dire days. And it is furthermore a story not lacking in a certain literary appeal something that had not been missing in the author's well-known previous works such as Robinson Crusoe The Adventures of Captain Singleton The Life Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton written in or Moll Flanders also from . According to all indications



In the plague which to a large extent seemed to have disappeared broke out again in Europe first in Marseille and with its return brought fear to the hearts of those social classes that barely had anything of value left before the debacle. Defoe who in had founded A Review of the Affairs of France and had already been recognized as one of the architects of modern journalism with this story A Journal of the Plague Year did not but to increase said fame probably well deserved since he would go on to write narrative and essay books as highly valued as The Shortest Path with the Dissidents Pirate Stories - The Perfect English Merchant -. or A voyage round the whole island of Great Britain .