A Journal of the Plague Year: Daniel Defoe a Historical Novel Annotated Edition

Download or read book A Journal of the Plague Year: Daniel Defoe a Historical Novel Annotated Edition written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last epidemic of plague in that city. The book is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings, and with frequent digressions and repetitions. Presented as an eyewitness account of the events at the time, it was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722. Defoe was only five years old in 1665 when the Great Plague took place, and the book itself was published under the initials H. F. and is probably based on the journals of Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe, who, like 'H. F.', was a saddler who lived in the Whitechapel district of East London.