Year of Wonders Analysis

You think that your hometown has changed a lot since you were a kid? Just imagine how different it would be if it had been hit by the Black Plague.Before the plague, Eyam is an idyllic country town...

This title is something else. It's more ironic than the crowd at an Animal Collective concert.That's because few people whose town has been destroyed by the Black Plague would describe that experie...

Oh let it be enough what thou hast done;When spotted deaths ran arm'd through every street,With poison'd darts, which not the good could shun,The speedy could outfly, or valiant meet.The living few...

Anna is busier in the last two chapters than the rest of the novel combined. She sparks an affair with Mompellion. She ends said affair. She delivers the Bradfords' newborn daughter, whom she then...

Although Year of Wonders takes place in 1600s England, don't expect the writing style to be quite as old fashioned. Author Geraldine Brooks will occasionally throw in an antiquated word or two, but...