Track | Section | Length |
1 | Part 01 | 36:11 |
2 | Part 02 | 32:11 |
3 | Part 03 | 27:22 |
4 | Part 04 | 32:43 |
5 | Part 05 | 31:01 |
6 | Part 06 | 33:18 |
7 | Part 07 | 28:49 |
8 | Part 08 | 23:22 |
9 | Part 09 | 27:40 |
10 | Part 10 | 23:14 |
11 | Part 11 | 28:43 |
12 | Part 12 | 21:04 |
13 | Part 13 | 32:07 |
14 | Part 14 | 35:16 |
15 | Part 15 | 25:26 |
16 | Part 16 | 30:50 |
17 | Part 17 | 31:03 |
18 | Part 18 | 29:04 |
19 | Part 19 | 26:18 |
20 | Part 20 | 32:59 |
21 | Part 21 | 27:10 |
22 | Part 22 | 23:49 |
23 | Part 23 | 26:48 |
24 | Part 24 | 31:09 |
25 | Part 25 | 22:57 |
Production
Read by : Denny Sayers
Book Coordinator: Denny Sayers
Meta Coordinator: David Barnes
Audio Remastering: D. S. Harvey
Artwork
Cover: The Great Plague 1665, Rita Greer, 2009
Inset: Title page of the original edition of Daniel Defoe's ''A Journal of the Plague Year''. Published in 1722 by E. Nutt.
Inset: Portrait of Daniel Defoe by Michael Van der Gucht (1660-1725).
DVD insert: A cart for transporting the dead in London during the Great Plague, 1665. Watercolour painting by or after G. Cruikshank.
CD insert: The Great Plague of London in 1665. Artist unknown.
A Journal of the Plague Year is an eyewitness account of the events and the experiences of one man during the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague swept through London, an epidemic that came to be called the Great Plague of London. Written in the years preceding its publication in 1722, its author was identified only as “H.F.”, a saddler living in the Whitechapel district of East London, who is likely based on Defoe’s uncle Henry Foe, who kept a journal. Defoe intended the book as a warning that the plague in Marseilles might make its way to London and as a handbook about what and what not to do in that event. The account proceeds in a generally chronological sequence, with frequent digressions and repetitions and tables of casualty statistics, then known as bills of mortality. At first the book was thought to be a non-fiction work, largely due to the scope and accuracy of its details and anecdotes, and it is often compared to the accounts of the plague in the diaries of Samuel Pepys. By the 1780’s critics came to realize that Defoe had combined a wealth of research that conveyed a verisimilitude with his own inventions, so much so that his biographer Walter Wilson wrote that “that it is impossible to distinguish one from the other; and he has given the whole such a likeness to the dreadful original, as to confound the sceptic, and encircle him in his enchantments”. As such, it stands as one of the first examples of an historical novel.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0686175923063 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175923070 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | CD jacket CD security sleeve DVD case |
Author | Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731) |
Year | 1722 |
Recording | |
Read by | Denny Sayers |
Length | 12 hours and 1 minute |
Type of Reading | Solo reading |
A Journal of the Plague Year
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Product Code: DB-1307
- Availability: In Stock
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