Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic : Voices from History Marcel Proust and Evelyn Waugh

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Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic : Voices from History Marcel Proust and Evelyn WaughA collection of intimate and revelatory first hand accounts of pandemics through the ages. Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, to Covid 19. People living through the crises have always recorded what they saw, what they felt, and what they did. Some presented sober facts laced with anecdote, while others produced emotional outpourings;