購物比價找書網找車網
FindBook  
 有 1 項符合

A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in Lond

的圖書
A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in Lond A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in Lond

作者:Defoe 
出版社:Spradabach Publishing
出版日期:2024-04-11
語言:英文   規格:精裝 / 376頁 / 21.59 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm / 普通級/ 初版
圖書選購
型式價格供應商所屬目錄
 
$ 1924
博客來 博客來
糖尿病
圖書介紹 - 資料來源:博客來   評分:
圖書名稱:A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in Lond

內容簡介

In November 1664, rumours began winding their way through crowded, filthy, stinking alleyways about the death of two Frenchmen from the Plague at Long Acre. The plague had raged in Amsterdam with incredible violence the year before, as some still remembered, and it appeared to have its made to London by boat. At first, the family with whom the Frenchmen were staying, and then those who had caught the invisible contagion, attempted to conceal it, but soon enough the deaths began to mount, and the cat was out of the bag. Along with the disgusting buboes, the dead carts, and the secret mass graves, people’s fervid imagination snowballed too, conjuring all manner of horrors-about the symptoms, about the disease, about pestilential houses filled with rotting corpses-sweeping the city with a foul wave of paranoia and terror. Who had it? Was it in the air? Was it divine punishment? Whither could one flee? Defoe, who lived through these events during infancy, and apparently basing his narrative on his uncle’s diary, plus a variety documents, tells the story in the manner of a witness account. Its frightening immediacy makes it far superior, and vastly more engrossing, than Hodges’ formal, medically-focused volume on the same subject. In the end, the plague claimed over 68,000 lives, about a quarter of the city’s population. Sociologically and in terms of the official response, astonishing, sometimes tragicomical parallels, emerge in the mind of the modern reader, between what became known as the Great Plague of London of 1665, and the more recent coronavirus pandemic. There are occasions for eyerolls, anger, laugher, and contempt herein. It seems that although we know history, we are condemned to repeat it anyway.

 

詳細資料

  • ISBN:9781909606470
  • 規格:精裝 / 376頁 / 21.59 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國
贊助商廣告
 
金石堂 - 今日66折
元智慧+軟能力:吳軍暢銷大作/提升大格局必備套書(特贈精美書籤4張)
作者:吳軍
出版社:幸福文化
出版日期:2023-09-27
66折: $ 528 
金石堂 - 今日66折
圖書館生滅史
作者:安德魯.佩蒂格里
出版社:時報文化出版企業股份有限公司
出版日期:2023-11-28
66折: $ 449 
 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
你可以習慣不在意:不內耗、不執著、不迷惘的62個心態重整練習
出版日期:2025-04-25
$ 268 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
佛畏系統:洞察事物背後的規則,在不確定時代做出對的選擇
作者:萬維鋼
出版社:先覺
出版日期:2022-11-01
$ 300 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
誰叫她今天不在身邊 4 (首刷限定版)
出版日期:2025-05-05
$ 144 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
臺灣漫遊錄
作者:楊双子
出版社:春山出版有限公司
出版日期:2020-04-01
$ 300 
 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
轉世為貓咪後,生活剛剛好就美好
作者:柴雅帕.通甘班宗
出版社:英屬維京群島商高寶國際有限公司台灣分公司
出版日期:2025-03-26
$ 252 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
暗網惡帝:直擊全球最大器官交易、毒品走私、軍火買賣帝國絲路偵查全紀錄
作者:尼克.比爾頓
出版社:英屬維京群島商高寶國際有限公司台灣分公司
出版日期:2025-03-26
$ 364 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
黑道調教中(02)
作者:夜神里奈
出版社:長鴻出版社(漫畫)
出版日期:2025-05-21
$ 90 
 

©2025 FindBook.com.tw -  購物比價  找書網  找車網  服務條款  隱私權政策