About “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”
A Journal of the Plague Year, first published in March 1722 by Daniel Defoe, recounts one man's experiences during 1665, when bubonic plague struck London in the Great Plague, the city's last outbreak of the Second plague pandemic. The narrative proceeds somewhat chronologically but without chapter divisions, marked by frequent digressions and repetitions. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1722
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