Download or read book The Plague Year written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes from a Plague Year written by Victor Chen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues the author’s bizarre discoveries in how he has been used in “science” and history, including the “coronavirus” pandemic and economic free-fall that is now punishing New York and much of the world. It relies largely on his readings in American newspapers, and, he hopes, it may help guide people to a calmer future.
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Daniel Defoe and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norton Critical Edition of one of Defoe's most important works reprints the 1722 text, the only edition published in Defoe's lifetime.
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Annotated Historical Note written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague or the bubonic plague struck the city of London. The book is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. Presented as an eyewitness account of the events at the time, it was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722. Defoe was only five years old in 1665, and the book itself was published under the initials H. F. and is probably based on the journals of Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe.In the book, Defoe goes to great pains to achieve an effect of verisimilitude, identifying specific neighborhoods, streets, and even houses in which events took place. Additionally, it provides tables of casualty figures and discusses the credibility of various accounts and anecdotes received by the narrator. The novel is often compared to the actual, contemporary accounts of the plague in the diary of Samuel Pepys. Defoe's account, which appears to include much research, is far more systematic and detailed than Pepys's first-person account. Whether the Journal can properly be regarded as a novel has been disputed.
Download or read book Plague Year written by Stephanie S. Tolan and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bran Slocum stands out from the moment he arrives at Ridgewood High, with his oddly unfocused eye and his unusual mode of dress. The immediate target of bullies, he seems strangely aloof and untouched. Sixteen year old Molly Pepper, herself an outsider, is intrigued by his attitude and sets out to befriend him, persuading her best friend David to join her in reaching out to him. Molly and David begin to see that Bran is hiding some sort of secret, but they have no idea how shocking the secret is until the truth hits Ridgewoodâin headlines that put Bran and his new friends in terrible danger, as the whole town turns against them. Events spin out of control and fear spreads like a deadly contagion. Their friendship deepening as they face the plague of hatred together, Bran, Molly and David can only hope they will be able to stand against it.
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Miquel Parets and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumors that plague had entered Barcelona's poorest quarter started circulating shortly after the New Year of 1651, but local officials hesitated to impose a full quarantine on the city. Within months the number of sick in the pesthouse had swelled to 4,000, and thousands more had fled the city. By the time the plague abated in September, at least 15,000 Barcelonans had died. This book is a translation of the 1651 journal of Miquel Parets, a Barcelona tanner who set out, like the protagonist of Camus' The Plague, "to state quite simply what we learn in a time of pestilence." His journal is rich with the details of life during the epidemic, including accounts of prisoners who escaped from jail by claiming they had the disease; of priests hearing confessions with a torch held between them and the sick to avoid contagion; and of people desperately seeking wetnurses for children after their mothers had died. Unlike other accounts, which depict local authorities as the bulwark of enlightened authority amid a sea of popular superstition, Parets accuses the local elite of negligence, selfishness, and abuse of authority during the contagion. His journal is notable both for its non-elite perspective and for its emotional quality--especially in the moving passage wherein the tanner recounts the death of his wife and three of their children. Amelang introduces the journal, illustrating the unique place of the work in the plague literature, and supplies notes and commentaries that clarify the historical context for the contemporary reader. Also included is a helpful appendix of excerpts from other popular plague texts.
Download or read book American Stutter 2019 2021 written by STEVE. ERICKSON and published by Zerogram Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Jonathan Lethem put, Steve Erickson's journal of the last 18 months of the Trump Presidency "sears the page." Erickson, one of our finest novelists, has long been an astute political observer, and American Stutter, part political declaration, part humorous account of more personal matters, offers a particularly moving reminder of the democratic ideals that we are currently struggling to preserve. Written with wit, eloquence, and a controlled fury as event unfold, Erickson has left us with an essential record of our recent history, a book to be read with our collective breath held.* Steve Erickson is the author of ten novels and two books about American culture. For 12 years he was founding editor of the national literary journal Black Clock. Currently he is the film/television critic for Los Angeles magazine and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters award, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement award.
Download or read book Constant Nobody written by Michelle Butler Hallett and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light comes an historical espionage novel with a contemporary edge from Michelle Butler Hallett. The time is 1937. The place: the Basque Country, embroiled in the Spanish Civil War. Polyglot and British intelligence agent Temerity West encounters Kostya Nikto, a Soviet secret police agent. Kostya has been dispatched to assassinate a doctor as part of the suppression of a rogue communist faction. When Kostya finds his victim in the company of Temerity, she expects Kostya to execute her -- instead, he spares her. Several weeks later, Temerity is reassigned to Moscow. When she is arrested by the secret police, she once again encounters Kostya. His judgement impaired by pain, morphine, and alcohol, he extricates her from a dangerous situation and takes her to his flat. In the morning, they both awaken to the realities of what Kostya has done. Although Kostya wants to keep Temerity safe, the cost will be high. And Temerity must decide where her loyalties lie. Writing about violence with an unusual grace, Michelle Butler Hallett tells a story of complicity, love, tyranny, and identity. Constant Nobody is a thrilling novel that asks how far an individual will go to protect another -- whether out of love or fear.
Download or read book Journal of the Plague Year With Introduction and Notes written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plague Zone written by Jeff Carlson and published by Jve. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can't wait for the movie." --Sacramento News & Review After surviving the Archos plague and the wars that followed, Ruth Goldman and Cam Najarro find peace in a village hidden in the Rockies, but the race for weaponized nanotech has accelerated. America is hit by new nano plague. Aided by a small group of friends and rivals, Ruth and Cam must discover the source of the contagion... an old enemy they believed dead...
Download or read book Notes from a Plague Year Spring 2019 Spring 2020 written by Victor Chen and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues the author's bizarre discoveries in how he has been used in "science" and history, including the "coronavirus" pandemic and economic free-fall that is now punishing New York and much of the world. It relies largely on his readings in American newspapers, and, he hopes, it may help guide people to a calmer future.
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year Spanish Edition written by Daniel Defoe and published by epubli. This book was released on 2023-03-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Daniel Defoe and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. Although it purports to have been written only a few years after the event, it actually was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722. Defoe was only five years old in 1665, and the book itself was published under the initials H. F. The novel probably was based on the journals of Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe
Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year written by Daniel Defoe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Journal of the Plague Year: Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London Daniel De Foe, son of James Foe, a respectable butcher, was born in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, in the year 1661. He was four years old, therefore, in the Plague year, 1665. The son of James Foe was named Daniel after his grandfather, who in the time of Charles the First was a gentleman in Northamptonshire, and kept a pack of hounds. We may infer, if we please, from the nature of man, that the family fortunes then went to the dogs, and that the son James, with energy of character, turned country training to account in the supply of sheep and cattle to the London food-market. James Foe prospered and grew old, acquiring, by his good sense, honour and influence among the London Nonconformists. He intended to train his son Daniel as a Nonconformist minister, and sent him, when fourteen years old - a year after the death of Milton - to an academy at Newington Green, established for the training to such ministry. The Reverend Charles Morton was its animating spirit. Defoe always referred to him with gratitude. It is included among recollections of Charles Morton's influence upon young minds committed to his charge, that, by his method of teaching, the students "were made masters of the English tongue, and more of them excelled in that particular than of any school at that time." He also trained his boys to reflection upon current politics, that they might not enter blindly in after-life into controversies of their day. Defoe, almost alone in his time, brought the historic sense into political discussion. He also reformed the currency of English speech, which in his time had been lowered in value by a French alloy. We may join Defoe, therefore, in kindly recollection of a teacher who gave the right directing touch to his young mind. After about five years' study at Newington Green, Daniel Foe was not called to the ministry, but entered into training for the business of a hose-factor in the City of London. That would be about the time of the great controversy touching the exclusion of the King's brother, the Duke of York, from succession to the throne, because he avowed himself to be a Roman Catholic. On the 25th of June 1680, when Foe's age was nineteen, the Earl of Shaftesbury presented the Duke of York to the Grand Jury of Westminster as a Popish Recusant. Out of this controversy came, in November 1681, Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel," and the whole intellectual battle that had at its centre the best poem of the best poet of that day, and had the English Revolution among issues of the strife, was quickening the energies within young Foe's mind when his age was twenty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Daniel Defoe written by Peter Denman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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