The Plague Narrative: When the world falls sick

Literature of pestilence and quarantine — Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, Poe’s Masque of the Red Death, and the dread of contagion.

In this collection

• The Eye of Osiris
• To Her
• The House
• An Old Sweetheart. (Sweet-Knot and Galamus)
• Turns of Fortune
• Reminder
• The Deadly Dust
• The Token
• The Duchess and the Jeweller
• The Bruised Reed
• The Rover
• The Definition of Love
• Madame Parisse
• The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans
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