A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London

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A 1722 book presented as one citizen's eyewitness account of the 1665 plague in London. It describes streets, neighborhoods and deaths in detail, and readers disagree whether it counts as history, fiction or a mixture of the two.

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A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London is an ebook by Daniel Defoe. It dates from 1722. This edition runs to roughly 295 pages, about 6 hours of reading at a typical pace.

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