THE ATHENAEUMA Journal of the Plague YearDaniel Defoe
History
A Journal of the Plague Year
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textThe Great Plague of London in 1665, told by a saddler who stayed in the city, reading the weekly bills of mortality and watching houses shut up with red crosses on their doors. Defoe was a small child at the time and wrote it in 1722. It reads like the account of a witness, which is the art of it.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 6 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #376. In the public domain in the United States.