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Plague Journal Year Account Part Defoe Published Publication

Front Journal of the Plague Year
Back An imaginative rework account part fact and part fiction of the outbreak of the Plague Year in 1664-5
Daniel Defoe
Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722.

A Journal of the Plague Year

Title page of the original edition in 1722

AuthorDaniel DefoeCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishGenreHistorical novelPublisherE. Nutt

Publication date

1722

This novel is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague or the bubonic plague struck the city of London. The book is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings.

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, and the book itself was published under the initials H. F. and is probably based on the journals of Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe.


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