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A Journal of the Plague Year (Norton Critical Editions) | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel Defoe
Creator: Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 82908
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 361
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0393961885
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.5
EAN: 9780393961881
ASIN: 0393961885
Publication Date: January 1992
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Product Description
In this edition of Defoe's novel the obvious typographical errors have been corrected and the 18th-century speech modernized, yet it remains otherwise unchanged from the original 1722 publication. A background section examines 17th-and 18th-century documents on the plagues.
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 A LIE!!! TOTAL FALSEHOODS!!!! WHAT A FRAUD!!! May 9, 2008
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is obviously filled with conceits from the very beginning. Daniel Defoe tries to make the reader to feel that he was acctualy there, which is impossible because the events took place hundreds and hundreds of years ago, and the only person who was alive then and is still alive now is JESUS CHRIST! Certianly not some HACK from GODDLESSNESSLAND, USA, I mean hollywood. I guess being an actor, Mr. Defoe is used to living lies made flesh, but it still is very tiresome the way that he pretends to have witnessed the events he writes about in this book. What a worn out, tired old cliched way of writing. I shouldnt be supprised, since Defoe had the NERVE to take the ROLE OF JESUS CHRIST THE PRINCE OF LOVE AND PEACE in the peice of trash talking blasphemy THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST!!!! Taking on such a role displays a HUGE lack of both imagination and TACT!! He and the filmmakers and in fact, all of hollywood should be given the BOOT for their BLASPHEMIES and for their routine practice of corrupting the minds of our once GREAT notion's CHILDREN!
Then, to top it all off, in the commentary and appendixes the editors display their oblivious LIBERAL BIASES by including two totaly pointless and off the subject essays about AIDS!!! Books like these are in school libraries all over the country- I dont want my children reading that! Nor do I want other peoples' children that! The LIBERAL MEDIA make me gag!!!!
This boo should be banned from school libraries, and in fact, from all libraries.
 Brilliant, mesmerizing March 28, 2002
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Well, it's not really clear that Defoe used actual accounts, though he did draw on much discussion about the Great Plague. He was, after all, only five or six years old when it occured. But the narrative is utterly absorbing. Written by one of the greatest novelists of all time (he was Joyce's favorite English novelist), the narrative is vivid, moving, and sometimes hilarious. It is also remarkably contemporary. You meet quacks and prophets disturbingly similar to the no-nothings who dominate our own time. The descriptions of behavior, disease, fear, and denial are as fresh today, and as relevant, as they were when Defoe wrote the Journal. Don't miss it!
 A Journal of the Plague Year : Authoritative Text Background March 31, 2000
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I liked the book. It was very factual and helped a great deal with research. It contains many accounts of the Plague.
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