A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe – A 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. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. 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. Defoe was only five years old in 1665, and the book itself was published under the initials H. F. The novel probably was based on the journals of Defoe’s uncle, Henry Foe
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English novelist, pamphleteer and journalist Daniel Defoe is best known for his novels ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and ‘Moll Flanders.’Who Was Daniel Defoe?Daniel Defoe became a merchant and participated in several failing businesses, facing bankruptcy and aggressive creditors. He was also a prolific political pamphleteer which landed him in prison for slander. Late in life he turned his pen to fiction and wrote Robinson Crusoe, one of the most widely read and influential novels of all time.
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