Infection and Immunity

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
The Journal of the plague year.
The history of the great plague in London, in the year 1665 : containing observations and memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both public and private, that happened during that dreadful period. By a citizen, who lived the whole time in London. To which is added, a journal of the plague at Marseilles, in the year 1720.
London : printed for, and sold by F. and J. Noble ..., 1754.

Defoe was an infant in 1665, but his fictional citizen's eyewitness account of the outbreak of plague in London syntheses the official record and the tales of survivors into a classic work of art. Published in 1722, it stresses the breakdown of public and private morality in the plague-stricken city. This 1754 edition appeared 20 years after Defoe's death and it remains in print today.

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