It’s a lot to take in but is ever wary of facts as opposed to rumors, sanity vs. Defoe, whose birth name was Foe, added the “De” to his name.įilled with statistics and personal observations, the narrative runs straight through without section breaks. Some say he composed it from notes kept by his uncle, Henry Foe, whose initials – H.F. Defoe would have been 5 when The Plague broke out, so his gripping on-the-scene account, augmented by research, must be considered historical fiction. Writer, merchant, at times spy, Daniel Defoe created in the “Journal” a chronological first-person narrative of the epidemic in the voice of a middle-class tradesman, a saddler.
Ironically it was probably the fire that helped finally destroy the vermin carrying the infecting bacteria. The time was 1722. The occasion, the publication of “A Journal of the Plague Year,” three years after Robinson Crusoe. In the “Journal” Defoe is looking back 57 years to when The Great Plague hit London, one year before The Great Fire would destroy just about anything that was left. But he did come to acknowledge the horror and the “brutal courage” of those who tried to help. Production notes: This ebook of A Journal of the Plague Year was published by Global Grey in 2019.He didn’t at first appreciate the scare and chose to stay in the crowded city. And he hadn’t at the start stockpiled food or self-isolated or realized the extent of the contagion. This book has 223 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1722. The novel probably was 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. Although it purports to have been written only a few years after the event, it actually was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel DefoeĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats.Ī Journal of the Plague Year is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London.
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