However, author Geraldine Brooks elevates this simple tale to a high level of literature and human drama in five ways: The story itself is humble: village life and personalities, lead mining, the constant growing death and suffering, the struggle for existence as the plague, unstoppable, does its will. Young minister, Michael Mompellion and his wife Elinor are exceptions, being highly literate, relatively non-superstitious for this pre-scientific period, and liberally reformist in religion.

The village is a simple place, lead mining and farming the center of the economy, the people primarily illiterate, startlingly superstitious, and habitually religious. Narrator Anna Frith comes to believe, probably rightly, that the “plague seeds” came along in the baggage of a young tailor who moved to the village from London, the disease being carried in the cloth he brought along as part of his trade.

But come it did, wreaking its havoc for a full year and leaving 2/3 the village dead. It wasn’t very common for plague to hit such a remote and tiny place, a village of only 380 people. The plague has come to a small English inland village in 1666. OL22857712W Page_number_confidence 93.75 Pages 370 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201122130248 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 710 Scandate 20201120074403 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780754019473 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 4.Geraldine Brooks. Urn:lcp:yearofwondersnov0000broo:epub:ff5e5a70-1f02-4842-a2e1-a5443aab030f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier yearofwondersnov0000broo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0cw46v2b Invoice 1652 Isbn 0754019470ĩ780754019473 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9947 Ocr_module_version 0.0.7 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19885 Openlibrary_edition

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