Disease threatens to consume all within its reach.
From the first reported death in 1664 until its purging by the Great Fire two years later, London is a city suffering at the merciless hands of a seemingly Divine judgement - the Plague.
Although the authorities are unable to contain the epidemic's destructive spread, H F places his trust in God and decides to remain in infested London. From this precarious vantage point he chronicles the daily events of London under siege. Blending personal experience with hearsay, eyewitness accounts with statistical reports from official sources, H F creates one of the great accounts of a terrifying contagion.
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