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A Journal of the Plague Year
Historical novel by Daniel Defoe
First published 1722Unlike the massive volume of Robinson Crusoe, AJOFPY is a length accessible to the modern reader. It tells of the author’s experiences during the Great Visitation of 1665, when bubonic plague struck the city of London. A grim picture of life during an epidemic and the gamble the right is taking with our lives.
Defoe was a brilliant writer, one of the first people to write proto-novels in the West. The book doesn’t read like a journalist exposé but as a story set in one of the worst of times.
And no need to pay Amazon for the privilege of reading it. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376
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