A survivor's minutely detailed account of London during the plague of 1665. Defoe's vivid fictional chronicle disguised as memoir.
Books mentioned in A Journal of the Plague Year (1)
Britain's Remembrancer by George Wither: “…tled, Come out of her, my People, lest you be Partaker of her Plagues; another called, Fair Warning; another, Britain's Remembrancer; and many such, all, or most part of which, foretold, directly or covertly, the ruin of the city.”
Books that mention A Journal of the Plague Year (1)
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson: “I asked Fyodor whether the coronavirus had led him to ask his father about Defoe's 1722 book, A Journal of the Plague Year.”