A Journal of the Plague Year

Written by Daniel Defoe
Introduction by Jason Goodwin

Format: eBook, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $8.99

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A Journal of the Plague Year

Written by Daniel Defoe
Introduction by Jason Goodwin

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $9.95

Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life... Read more >

The Travels of Marco Polo

Written by Marco Polo
Edited by Manuel Komroff
Translated by William Marsden
Introduction by Jason Goodwin

Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $9.99

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The Travels of Marco Polo

Written by Marco Polo
Edited by Manuel Komroff
Translated by William Marsden
Introduction by Jason Goodwin

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $13.95

Marco Polo’s account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entire continent of Asia, provided us with accurate descriptions of life in China, Tibet, India... Read more >