Chronicles of the Plague Years: Illustrated Commemorative Edition

★The dark masterpiece of Daniel Defoe, the famous British writer and "the father of the novel" ★The founding book of "plague literature" that influenced Marquez, Coetzee, Camus, Saramago, and Pamuk ★It is both a true history and a novel full of imagination, recreating the tragedy of the Great Plague in London in 1665 with lifelike writing. Defoe's "Chronicles of the Plague Years" published in 1722, vividly depicts the tragedy of the Great Plague in London and tells us this dark and terrifying history. This is an informative and informative record, a restoration of history, and an in-depth on-site report, allowing the city of London, where the plague was rampant in 1665, to be resurrected in time and space. London's ninety-seven parishes, cities and suburbs, the banks of the Thames, the Stock Exchange and Land Sale Market, Whitehall and the Tower of London, Greenwich and Southwark, the gates and palisades, the countless streets and alleys and churchyards, are presented in this panoramic view. In addition, it provides a table of casualty figures and discusses the credibility of various accounts and anecdotes. Some critics believe that "only a small part of the records in the book are fictional", while Watson Nicholson wrote in 1919 that the book can be regarded as "true history". At the same time, this book is an imaginative novel and an "ingenious work of art."