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A journal of the plague5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() F.', recounts in vivid detail the progress of the disease and the desperate attempts to contain it. Defoe's fictional narrator, known only as 'H. Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague of 1665 on the city of London. 'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death! ' ![]() Newly written Introduction by David Roberts.Complete topographical index enables the reader to track the Journal's complex references to London's streets, churches, alleyways, and prisons both before and after the Great Fire of 1666.Medical note that explains the relationship between Defoe's medical knowledge and our own.It considers the portrayal of London, recreated by Defoe to the way it was before the Great Fire, and to its device of fiction masquerading as fact. ![]()
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