A Journal of the Plague Year

Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct - historically and fictionally - the Great Plague of London in 1664-65. Written as an eyewitness report, the novel abounds in memorable and realistic details. Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct - historically and fictionally - the Great Plague of London in 1664-65. Written as an eyewitness report, the novel abounds in memorable and realistic details.