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A Journal of the Plague Year
work by Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year, account of the Great Plague of London in 1664β65, written by Daniel Defoe and published in 1722. Narrated by βH.F.,β an inhabitant of London who purportedly was an eyewitness to the devastation that followed the outbreak of bubonic plague, the book was a historical and fictional reconstruction by Defoe.
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