Die Pest zu London by Daniel Defoe
"Die Pest zu London" by Daniel Defoe is a fictional documentary account published in 1722. The work chronicles the Great Plague of London in 1665 through the eyes of narrator H.F., a saddler who remains in the city while others flee. He witnesses desperate quarantine measures, quack remedies, mass graves, and the collapse of social order as approximately 100,000 people perish. The narrative blends eyewitness observations, rumors, and parish statistics to capture
a city consumed by fear, superstition, and death. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 |
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| Translator | Steinitzer, Heinrich, 1869-1947 |
| Uniform Title | A journal of the plague year. German |
| Title | Die Pest zu London |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Pest_zu_London |
| Credits | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | Great Fire, London, England, 1666 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Plague -- Fiction |
| Subject | London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 65277 |
| Release Date | May 7, 2021 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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