A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

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by Daniel Defoe

Historical Fiction Survival Society and Class Mortality Fear

PAGES
214
ESTIMATED TIME
8 hours 0 minutes
PACE
Intermediate
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
1722
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
English
DOWNLOADS
2030

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WHY READ A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR IN 2025?

303 years later, still timely

Ledger entries, street reports, and whispered fears bring a city under contagion to life. Defoe balances data with scenes, tracing quarantine, migration, charity, and fraud. The voice stays steady, which makes the panic more believable and the humanity more durable.

TODAY'S CONNECTION

After recent pandemics, it reads like a field manual for information hygiene, mutual aid, and institutional memory.

Crisis reporting

Numbers and neighbors.

Rumor mechanics

What spreads besides disease.

City as organism

Systems under stress.

Perfect for

Readers interested in historical novels Those fascinated by societal responses to epidemic outbreaks Fans of Daniel Defoe's narrative style

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About Daniel Defoe

Survival trade and voice that invented a modern reality effect on the page.

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