A Journal of the Plague Year

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Defoe's Journal was supposed to appear to be an autobiographical account of one, H. F., a saddler who reports incidents of the Plague of 1665.  This man, said to have been fashioned after Defoe's real life uncle Henry Foe, stayed in London during the Great Plague of 1665 and lived through it.  A lot of what Defoe wrote though came from books and public records, not from his own personal experience.  the Journal is not a literal history of the Plague, but the second-hand account of what happened to an ordinary man during that dreadful time.

"The Journal is one of Defoe's characteristic "honest cheats," and by common consent one of his best - true and untrue, sometimes at odds with the literal evidence, but massively convincing." 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. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before.This books is based on a real event.

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