LIVRO The Great Plague of London: 1665 (English Edition) PDF Ivor Kimball

This compilation tells the story of the Great Plague of London in 1665 which was the last major epidemic of bubonic plague in England. It’s estimated that it killed 100,000 people in a year and a half – a quarter of London’s population.The compilation consists of 3 works. A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR by DANIEL DEFOE is a novel written as an authentic history and presented as an eyewitness account of the events in London at the time of the Great Plague. LOIMOLOGIA is a treatise, published in 1720, by Dr. NATHANIEL HODGES, who was one of the few physicians that remained in the city in 1665. His treatise is a first-hand account of the Great Plague and one of the important sources of Defoe’s work. The third part of this compilation is a complete work of fiction: OLD ST. PAUL’S by WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH is a historical romance that describes two catastrophic events in consecutive years of 1665 and 1666 – the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London.