A Visitation of the Plague by Daniel Defoe [U.K MINIATURE PAPERBACK] 1995 • Penguin Classics

A VISITATION OF THE PLAGUE by DANIEL DEFOE

MINIATURE U.K. PAPERBACK [1995] PENGUIN 60s CLASSICS

Published in a line of 60p priced U.K. miniature sized paperbacks to commemorate Penguin's 60th anniversary.

Miniature paperback in excellent condition. [Quarter for scale]

Light shelf / rub wear to cover.  Otherwise like new. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The tears and lamentations of a city under siege

In the months leading up to the outbreak of the Great Plague of 1665 panic spread over the city of London. Trapped by poverty, a gullible populace became prey to an army of astrologers, charlatans and quack doctors who offered false promises of hope in the face of the impending horror.

A Journal of the Plague Year, from which this extract is taken, is Daniel Defoe's vivid, imaginative reconstruction of the Great Plague of London.

Regarded as one of the first great English novels, it is published in Penguin Classics.