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A Journal Of The Plague Year

Daniel Defoe

Form
Form Diary
Year
Year 1722
Pages
Pages 290

London in 1665, the year the Great Plague emptied it, told street by street by a saddler who stayed. Defoe was five years old that year: this is a novel written to be mistaken for a real man's diary.

A terrible pit it was, and I could not resist my curiosity to go and see it.
A Journal Of The Plague Year, Daniel Defoe

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