A Journal of the Plague Year
by Daniel Defoe
“In a city under siege by an invisible enemy, the only rule is survival.”
Witness the visceral terror of 1665 London as the Black Death turns a bustling metropolis into a city of shadows and locked doors. This masterpiece of historical realism provides a haunting, front-row seat to the chaos of survival and the fragility of human society under the ultimate siege.
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