A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

ByDaniel Defoe
1722 • 328 pages

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This account of the Great Plague of London (1664-65) was first published in 1722. In it Defoe describes the horrifying daily events in London city as it was besieged by bubonic plague.

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