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Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of Reviews:

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Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' () is a fictionalized account of the bubonic plague epidemic that struck London in which Defoe witnessed as a five-year old, the year before the Great Fire of London. This work is among the first English novels.

Jun 23,  · Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' () is a fictionalized account of the bubonic plague epidemic that struck London in which Defoe witnessed as a five-year old, the year .

A Journal of the Plague Year is one of Daniel Defoe's most popular and strangest works; it is an amalgam of history and fiction that attempts to relate what life was like in London during the plague of Published in , nearly 57 years after the events depicted, the work is a first-person narrative told from the perspective of H.F., a saddler.

First published in March , 57 years after the event that struck more than , people, Journal of the Plague Year is a compelling portrait of life during London's horrific bubonic plague. Through the eyes of H.F. (speculated to be Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe, from whose journals the book was supposedly adapted) we witness great grief, depravity and despair: crazed sufferers roam the streets, unearthly .

Get this from a library! A journal of the plague year. [Daniel Defoe; Nelson Runger] -- Accepted as history but also read as fiction, this account of the bubonic plague that hit London during the reign of Charles II "stands as the most reliable and comprehensive" record of that time.

The following paragraph quoted from back cover of the New American Library version of A Journal of the Plague Year (Signet Classics, ) Bring out your dead! The ceaseless.