And of course some things change from place to place and year to year: fashions, humor, technology, and so on. My friend and NewsWhistle colleague Amber Waves often remarks, when visiting various countries or reading about history, that nothing really changes. This book describes the last major outbreak of bubonic plague to hit London, which killed something in the range of 100,000 people. And I’m not sure, honestly, whether it is now the best time or the worst time to read A Journal of the Plague Year, an account of the Great Plague of London in 1665. Defoe's account, which appears to include much research, is far more systematic and detailed than Pepys's first-person account.Īpps in PDF form you can turn page by page like a book.As I write this, we’ve been socially distancing for over a year. Additionally, it provides tables of casualty figures and discusses the credibility of various accounts and anecdotes received by the narrator.Ī Journal of the Plague Year eBook is often compared to the actual, contemporary accounts of the plague in the diary of Samuel Pepys. In the ebook, Defoe goes to great pains to achieve an effect of verisimilitude, identifying specific neighborhoods, streets, and even houses in which events took place.
and is probably based on the journals of Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe. Defoe was only five years old in 1665, and the book itself was published under the initials H.
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. The ebook is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. Un journal de l'année de la peste par Daniel Defoe, publié pour la première fois en mars 1722.Ī Journal of the Plague Year eBook is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague or the bubonic plague struck the city of London.
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