Présentation de l'éditeur
Being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665
A dreadful plague in London was
In the year sixty-five,
Which swept an hundred thousand souls
Away; yet I alive!
It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought (some said from Italy, others from the Levant) among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others, from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again
Then ... it came to England where it devastated the country, including London. It wasn't until the Great Fire, in 1666, that plague was effectively managed in Britain's capital (when flames killed the rats ,and the fleas, which spread the pestilence).
The haunting cry of `Bring out your dead!` by a bell-ringing collector of 17th-century plague victims has filled readers across the centuries with cold terror. The chilling cry survives in historical consciousness largely as a result of this classic.
Biographie de l'auteur
Daniel Defoe (1659–1661) was an English writer and journalist most widely known for his novel Robinson Crusoe, originally published in 1719. His work varied from political pamphlets to poetry, and included other novels such as Religious Courtship and The Political History of the Devil. He lived in London, England.
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