A Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe. Part I.

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe was first published in March 1722. It's a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London, in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last plague epidemic of the city. The book is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings, and with frequent digressions and repetitions.

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. Daniel Defoe was only five years old in 1665 when the Great Plague took place, 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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