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A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the most Remarkable Occurrences, As well Publick as Private, which happened in London During the last Great Visitation In 1665, commonly called A Journal of the Plague Year, is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722.
A Journal of the Plague Year, account of the Great Plague of London in 1664–65, written by Daniel Defoe and published in 1722. Narrated by “H.F.,” an inhabitant of London who purportedly was an eyewitness to the devastation that followed the outbreak of bubonic plague, the book was a historical and.
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Jun 24, 2023 · A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe being Observations or Memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665.
Jan 16, 2006 · Plague -- Fiction Subject: London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction Category: Text: EBook-No. 376: Release Date: Jan 16, 2006: Most Recently Updated: Jun 24, 2023: Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 1902 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!
A Journal of the Plague Year. Daniel Defoe, Cynthia Wall. 3.56. 10,916 ratings1,482 reviews. Actually written sixty years after the plague of 1665 swept through London, Defoe brings the city to life in all of its hardship and fear.
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Feb 5, 2022 · T was about the Beginning of September 1664, that I, among the Rest of my Neighbours, heard in ordinary Discourse, that the Plague was return'd again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Roterdam, in the Year 1663. whether they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant among some Goods, which were brought home by their Turkey ...
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims.
