[PDF] Histories Of A Plague Year eBook

Author : Giulia Calvi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520057999

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"A dramatic and highly interesting story--one that brings to life the complexities of plague and of piety."--Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0593320735

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” —The New York Times Book Review From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues . . . inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function—with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential. In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0593320727

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” —The New York Times Book Review From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues . . . inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function—with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential. In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8726644061

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‘Lord have mercy upon us’. If these words were painted on your door, it could only mean one thing—you were one of the infected. In the years 1665 and 1666, the bubonic plague ravaged London. Bodies piled up on the streets, families quarantined themselves indoors. 100,000 people would perish, a quarter of the city’s population. In "A Journal of the Plague Year", Daniel Defoe offer a fictionalised account of the pandemic, seen through the eyes of a God-fearing, upper-class Londoner. Gruesome and vivid in its details, it makes for a terrifyingly relevant read for modern audiences. English writer Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731) led an extraordinary life. As a child, he survived both the Great Fire of London and a major outbreak of the bubonic plague. As an adult, he enjoyed careers as a merchant, political satirist, rebel soldier and even a spy. Defoe was in his fifties before he finally turned his hand to fiction. "Robinson Crusoe", his first novel, was an instant bestseller. The story of a shipwrecked sailor, its style and structure made it a landmark text in the history of English literature. His other notable works include "Moll Flanders", "A Journal of the Plague Year" and "Captain Singleton".

Author : Watson Nicholson
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2015-04-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781511648332

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The author of this most interesting treatise on Defoe's famous narrative has compiled with evident labor and research a great mass of corroborative material to prove the truth of the story told by Defoe, and he has certainly succeeded in his effort. All Defoe's most improbable statements, statistics, recitals of terrible sights to be seen in the streets or of the horrible misfortunes befalling individuals or families are found to be actual reproductions of facts which can be verified by official statements or by historic documents. Even the story of Solomon Eagle, the Quaker, who ran naked in the streets raving, Dr. Nicholson thinks he has duplicated by the narrative of the performances of other eccentric Quakers. He admits that the narrative of the three men who escaped from the city and wandered about the country, has a fictitious ring. Dr. Nicholson's main contention is that "Defoe's Journal" should be classed as history, not fiction, and he mentions in a somewhat grieved manner that in libraries, or in such series as Everyman's Library, it is put under the head of fiction. He excuses Defoe's use of the first person singular in the narrative as merely a pardonable ruse to make his book more generally popular and unlike a dry-as-dust history. We must confess that though we feel that Dr. Nicholson has done a service to the book in establishing the essential accuracy of its details, our conviction is that any book which claims to be a narration of facts written by one who participated in them, must be classed as fiction, if the author did not actually see what he relates or was not an actor in them. Thackeray's "Henry Esmond" is as accurate historically as the "Journal" which Defoe claims was written by a sadler of London, yet no one would think of classing it under any other class than fiction. It is true that the "Journal" is not a novel because it contains no plot, but just as it is not strictly speaking a novel, neither can it be classed otherwise than as a fictitious narrative, having been written by a fictitious person. Dr. Nicholson's work is a valuable contribution to the literature of the plague, as well as to the bibliography of Defoe. The "Journal" was written at a time when the people of London were apprehensive of another plague visitation; the plague was raging at Marseilles, from whence its entry into London was feared. Defoe, with true journalistic instinct, promptly wrote a timely book. The recent influenza epidemic has brought to the minds of many people a realistic conception of what such visitations involve. It is to be hoped that Dr. Nicholson's book will revive interest in one of the most famous of the English classics, and that the lessons that Defoe tried to teach his generation will be of some benefit to ours. -"Annals of Medical History," Volume 3 [1921]

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : epubli
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2023-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3757525116

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Diario del año de la peste: Un Diario del Año de la Peste: Observaciones o Memorias de los sucesos más notables, tanto públicos como privados, que ocurrieron en Londres durante la última gran visita de 1665, comúnmente llamado Diario del Año de la Peste es un libro de Daniel Defoe, publicado por primera vez en marzo de 1722. Escrito en realidad sesenta años después de que la peste de 1665 arrasara Londres, Defoe da vida a la ciudad en toda su penuria y temor. Con todo lujo de detalles, "Diario del año de la peste" parece casi un relato de primera mano, que lleva al lector por los barrios, las casas y las calles que han cambiado drásticamente con el creciente número de muertos. El ajetreo de los negocios y los recados da paso a las puertas marcadas con la cruz que significa casa de la muerte, así como a los carros de difuntos que transportan a los abatidos a las fosas comunes, a medida que el número de muertos aumenta hasta casi 100.000. A medida que la epidemia avanza y el narrador se encuentra con más historias de aislamiento y horror, Defoe revela su magistral equilibrio como escritor tanto histórico como imaginativo.

Author : Daniel Dafoe
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1442936681

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"A Journal of the Plague Year" is a brilliant historical novel by Daniel Defoe written with journalistic precision. It is one man's chronicles of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London.

Author : George Rice Carpenter Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780526271856

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