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A Parcel of Patterns

Jill Paton Walsh · 1992

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Mall Percival tells how the plague came to her Derbyshire village of Eyam in the year 1665, how the villagers determined to isolate themselves to prevent further spread of the disease, and how three-fourths of them died before the end of the following year.

First sentence: A parcel of patterns brought the Plague to Eyam.

Book details

Year
1992
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Editions
12
Pages
144
ISBN
9780374457433

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