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A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe

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1722
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Daniel Defoe published this in 1722, presenting it as the firsthand memoir of a London saddler who stayed in the city through the Great Plague of 1665. The narrator, identified only as H. F., walks the reader down emptying streets, past shuttered houses marked with red crosses, mass burial pits, and the desperate measures people took to survive or flee. Defoe was only a small child during the actual outbreak, so the account blends parish records and bills of mortality with invented detail, which is why scholars still argue over whether to call it history or fiction. Either way, it remains a haunting portrait of a city besieged by disease. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available.

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Daniel Defoe

Four books here, and only two of them were signed. Robinson Crusoe appeared in 1719 as the account of a mariner of York, written by himself, and readers took that literally for a while.

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First published
1722
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
216
Language
English
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Denny Sayers (d. 2015)