A Journal of the Plague Year. The ceaseless Daniel DEFOE (c.1660 - 1731) The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London.
Genre(s): Historical Fiction. At the time of publication there was alarm that plague in Marseilles could cross into England. About A Journal of the Plague Year.
Defoe’s account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe 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. Bring out your dead! Journal of the Plague Year Return to Renascence Editions A Journal of the Plague Year. A Journal of the Plague Year is Daniel Defoe’s novel of the Great Plague of London in 1665, published fifty-seven years after the event in 1722. Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £20. Never made publick before First published in March 1722, 57 years after the event that struck more than 100,000 people, Journal of the Plague Year is a compelling portrait of life during London's horrific bubonic plague. Defoe intended the book as a warning. This Renascence Edition was transcribed by Risa Stephanie Bear, February, 2008, from the text as found in A Journal of the/Plague Year/Being Observations or Memorials/of the … Daniel Defoe begins his book A Journal of the Plague Year with these words, thus giving his account a credible tone: being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, Written by a CITIZEN who continued all the while in London. A Journal of the Plague Year is an account, a "journal", of one man's experiences in the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London.
Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague …
Buy A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe from Waterstones today! The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. T his month, we’re going to read A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, free to read on Project Gutenberg.This has been a popular request, for obvious reasons. A Journal of the Plague Year is written in a journalistic style which is interesting - but it is not broken into chapters or sections - which makes it heavy going. Through the eyes of H.F. (speculated to be Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe, from whose journals the book was supposedly adapted) we witness great grief, depravity and despair: crazed sufferers roam … Daniel Defoe.
Based on Defoe’s own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. The following paragraph quoted from back cover of the New American Library version of A Journal of the Plague Year (Signet Classics, 1960.)
I thought the content of the book brought up many interesting facts, conditions, concerns of the time - such as …