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Name: A Journal of the Plague Year
Author: Daniel Defoe

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The Plague is a disease that has a long and tragic history alongside humanity’s development of tightly packed cities.A Journal of a Plague Yearis a first-person narrative account of London’s last great plague outbreak in 1665, which killed an estimated 100,000 people in just 18 months. Though written in the first-person perspective byDaniel Defoe, he was only 5 years old during the outbreak. The initials at the end of the work,...

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Preface

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...

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A Journal Of The Plague Year

It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, a...

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Endnotes

It seems John was in the tent, but hearing them call, he steps out, and taking the gun upon his shoulder, talked to them as if he had been the sentinel placed there upon the guard by some officer that...

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