A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

184 pages | first published 1722

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Written by Daniel Defoe nearly sixty years after the bubonic plague of 1665 swept through London, "A Journal of the Plague Year", published in 1722, is an historically accurate account of one man's experiences during a year of the Great Plague. In...
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