Rudolf Koštial Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe vividly chronicles the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed-the streets and alleyways deserted, the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors, the dead-carts on their way to the pits-and encounter the horrified citizens of the city, as fear, isolation, and hysteria take hold. The shocking immediacy of Defoe's description of plague-racked London makes this one of the most convincing accounts of the Great Plague ever written.

Kniha obsahuje dva romány Tajomný cudzinec a Ťuťmák Wilson. Tajomný cudzinec je výsmechom ľudskej hlúposti, zadubenosti i vedomej zákernosti, poverčivosti a nespravodlivosti. Dej sa odohráva v Rakúsku. Satan v podobe krásneho mládenca – tajomného cudzinca – zahanbuje počestných ľudí a v šikovnej zápletke sa ľudská myseľ očisťuje. Podobne je to i v druhom romániku, no autor tu použil metódy odtlačkov prstov pri pátraní po zločincoch. Doslov napísala Zora Studená.