A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DefoeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I don't care that this is "documentary novel", although I nearly only read nonfiction. Defoe seems so successful at putting me in London in 1665 that this was worth a second read. Reading of the "bring out your dead" cart-borne travails of Londoners of this time, I wonder how well a modern city would fair under the same circumstances. Considering Katrina, for instance, I doubt we would bear up as well as the Londoners and how they did bear up (in-home confinement, watchmen, open pit graves) is all laid out here with the quack nostrums of the time.
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