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A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe, Cynthia Sundberg Wall (Editor), Cynthia Wall (Annotations)

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In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe vividly chronicles the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed-the streets and alleyways deserted, the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors, the dead-carts on their way to the pits-and encounter th...more

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Published August 26th 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published March 1722)

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Jun 23, 2009 Anca rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 10, read-in-unfamiliar-places, summer-2009

Historical fiction about the plague of London in 1665. Defoe was just a 5 year old child when it happened but documented about it in exhaustive details so it will sound like a real life journal. It is first person narrative but it does not focus on the person of H.F, a saddler that stayed to protect his business (presumed to be based on Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe that lived through it), but on general means.
There are many details about parishes affected, official decisions, the frauds deceiving pe...more Historical fiction about the plague of London in 1665. Defoe was just a 5 year old child when it happened but documented about it in exhaustive details so it will sound like a real life journal. It is first person narrative but it does not focus on the person of H.F, a saddler that stayed to protect his business (presumed to be based on Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe that lived through it), but on general means.
There are many details about parishes affected, official decisions, the frauds deceiving people, logic assumings about the plague's spreading, occasional particular stories/anecdotes to make a general point. The narrator neutrally presents a detailed account of the situation.

I was fascinated about the bubonic plague ever since I've read Camus' The Plague. Of course, Defoe handles it entirely different, the human despair in a crisis and the candor that follows up a tragedy are mentioned with resignation because it is all flushed away soon after the refugees return. So it is obviously not Defoe's aim to point it.
The narrator is a well respected man that I sympathized with for his attitude and openness. He has medical & religious beliefs that I suppose are of the most common sense you could find those days (happily he doesn't linger over the latter). I think that the book's axis is the interest given to the poor, despite his belonging to the middle class. Because the writing is so unpolished that it reads like a report, it won't strike a chord but rather state a historical reality and force the readers into the acknowledge of a misfortunate category of people (especially in the context of the growing illuminism movement). At that time, it's likely Defoe also intentioned it to serve as a guide for the future cities struck by the disease.

-The book's structure (no chapter/headings) made it slightly difficult to read. That, cumulated with an upsetting redundance towards the end definitely reduced my enthusiasm. But that's just details.
-The foreword (for the Romanian edition) is very welcomed as it sets the book in a historic & literary context; plus, a perspective over Defoe's life and work.(less)

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Sep 14, 2011 Keely rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: uk-and-ireland, reviewed, plague

And so it was that the plague came into London, by the mercy of God, and I thought I would remain in the city despite the plague, for since God made it, I could not escape it if he meant me to perish from it, viz. when that brick fell off the chimney and onto my foot, which I was loathe to move, for since God sent the brick, it would do me no good to move my foot and so avoid his will.

But I would say the best way to avoid the plague and to survive would be to leave the city, as many did, when th...more And so it was that the plague came into London, by the mercy of God, and I thought I would remain in the city despite the plague, for since God made it, I could not escape it if he meant me to perish from it, viz. when that brick fell off the chimney and onto my foot, which I was loathe to move, for since God sent the brick, it would do me no good to move my foot and so avoid his will.

But I would say the best way to avoid the plague and to survive would be to leave the city, as many did, when the signs of the plague came, for in this way, many survived who would not have, by the grace of God, for though God created the plague, which cannot be hoped to be avoided, we are no Mahometans who believe our lives predetermined.

But, the Lord Mayor should not have locked people with the plague up in their houses, for this was a cruel thing, and I think many died who had no reason to from this expedient, viz. by being trapped with others who were diseased or suffering ill health from the close air.

I rejoice that God sent this plague to kill so many unpleasant people, viz. heathens and unbelievers and thieves and the greedy, for surely God sent the plague for this purpose, and would not have allowed to live any who so deserved death, viz heathens, unbelievers, thieves, and the greedy.

Though it was difficult to go to church, for so many of the priests had died, and so many of those who came in and prayed for their lives, and their families lives, which was the best thing they could do, even though the plague travels on the breath and to be in church is very dangerous for this reason, doubtless God spared the good people who deserved life, viz. kind and gentle people.

Now I must tell you a sad story about a man who I knew to be extremely generous and pious, and whose wife was chaste and always kind, and who had two infant children. The children both died of the plague, followed by the wife, who did not even know she had it, and then he was driven to madness by the plague and ran through the streets naked and babbling, before he also died. I feel it was necessary to relate this story, for there are many such like it, and though I cannot declare it's veracity myself, it seems so likely that I must needs include it here, viz. it is a worthy story.

And I should say that the Lord Mayor should not have locked people with the plague up in their houses, for this was a cruel thing, and I think many died who had no reason to from this expedient, viz. by being trapped with others who were diseased or suffering ill health from the close air.

There are some physicians who say that the disease can be detected by taking a microscope to the exhalation of a victim, whereupon will be seen many tiny monsters, viz. dragons, snakes, and devils, and that these enter the blood and lay many eggs which pass the disease along, but I think this most ridiculous and unlikely, and only include it because some have said it.

Some poor, ignorant folks went to fortune tellers or other such liars and payed monies to have certain rituals performed or symbols given which were meant to protect them, viz. pins or necklaces said to be good luck or proof against disease, which was most foolish and it is a shame that such folk took advantage of the poor in this way.

Luckily, most of the poor took faith in the church, wearing crosses or invoking saints and praying each day and night to be spared, which I am certain the greater part were.

But I should not end this account without first speaking of a certain crime: the Lord Mayor should not have locked people with the plague up in their houses, for this was a cruel thing, and I think many died who had no reason to from this expedient, viz. by being trapped with others who were diseased or suffering ill health from the close air.(less)

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Feb 01, 2009 gabrielle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Shelves: science, history, disasters

(Another one from the _Peeps_ list.) Written in the early 1700s; a first-person narrative of the London plague of 1665. The account is incredibly detailed, although its accuracy has been called into question lately. There's no longer any way to verify Defoe's statistics because the church records (tracking burials etc) were lost in the Great Fire. I LOVE PLAGUE STORIES. Doom! Death! Destruction! I think it would be really cool to set up a "living history" tour of London & visit the locations...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Pedro Menchén rated it 5 of 5 stars

Formidable documento de investigación (muy similar a cualquier reportaje periodístico actual) sobre la peste que asoló Londres en 1665. Desde que se descubrió el primer brote hasta que cesó por completo, el autor nos va contando, paso a paso, con todo tipo de detalles (algunos verdaderamente escabrosos), la evolución y propagación de la plaga y el comportamiento de la gente respecto a la misma. Las circunstancias en una situación así son terribles, apocalípticas, y podrían repetirse (si no con l...more

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Feb 21, 2013 Phyllis rated it 2 of 5 stars

Would someone please, please break this thing up into chapters. Sometimes you just have to put a book down and this just goes on and on, horrifying story after horrifying story, with no break.

So, the populace is scared, with reason. And some of them die and others don't, but a lot of people are in the prior category. In fact, the book is full of lists of the number of dead.

Some residents of London hightail it to the countryside, sometimes taking the plague with them and sometimes successfully. A...more

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Feb 20, 2013 Sacherina rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: classics

I am impressed by this book because of its matter-of-fact approach towards the plague. Defoe manages to write a book about a disasterous disease that basically paused the whole country until it was over withouth becoming emotional. I say that the narrator doesn't become emotional, what emotions are stirred in the reader is a whole different matter.

It is gloomy and depressing as a whole but Defoe manages to occasionally lift the reader's spirits by telling him about the incredible acts of kindnes...more

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Feb 03, 2013 Britt Vasarhelyi rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: adults who enjoy unusual events in history

Recommended to Britt by: yard sale or used bookstore

I have this book in both paperback and digital forms, since I'm prone to lending books I love and then never getting them back. So far, I've kept them both.

Daniel Defoe is best known for "Robinson Crusoe," but he also authored literally hundreds of others books. This is remarkable since he's one of the earliest writers of novels -- and some say he's the first.

I had no particular interest in the plague when I picked up this book. I'd tried to read "Rats, Lice and History," hadn't gotten very far...more

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Nov 20, 2012 Rick Skwiot rated it 5 of 5 stars

Thanks to 20th century medical and public health advances, we now know how to prevent, stem, and treat most infectious diseases. Though a few folks may still recall the flu epidemic of 1918, which cost 20 millions lives worldwide and a half million in the United States alone, for most of us living outside the Third World, fear of epidemic has become largely a thing of the past.

But if you wish to glimpse daily life under the threat of impending death by disease (without actually being threatened...more

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May 24, 2012 Martin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Thoroughly fascinating account of the 1665 London Plague, if you like that sort of thing! The actions and reactions of the general public are the main feature of this telling of the famous 'visitation', they constantly amazed and surprised me. From running naked, screaming, through the city until dropping dead, to burning themselves to death in their beds; the pain delivered by the plague must be unbelievable.

A rare snapshot of a city in crises written by one who stayed there all the while. The...more

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Apr 12, 2012 Justin Evans rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: essays, fiction, history-etc

Yep... Defoe's returns continue to diminish. This reminds me of Dostoevsky's 'House of the Dead,' since both books are absolutely riveting for the first 100 pages or so: you get an immediate impression of what it's like to live in a plague-ridden London (or Russian prison); you get drawn in by the odd 'life is stranger than fiction' moment, but then, before you know it, you're reading exactly the same thing two or even three times for no particular reason other than the narrator's inability to r...more

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Mar 29, 2012 Kathryn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-reads, excellent-english, historical-fiction

I picked up Journal of the Plague Year a week or so ago. It took me a long time to finish it because it was such heavy reading.

Daniel Defoe was quite interested in the plague in general. After the great epidemic in the fourteenth century, the bubonic plague continued to come back in smaller outbreaks over the next few centuries. One such outbreak was the Great Plague of London, which occurred in 1665. Journal of the Plague Year is a fictional account of this outbreak; it purports to be the journ...more

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Oct 27, 2011 Jason Pettus rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: pre-renaissance, classic, dark, personal-favorite, smart-nerdy

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)

The CCLaP 100: In which I read for the first time a hundred so-called "classics," then write reports on whether or not they deserve the label

Essay #62: A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), by Daniel Defoe

The story in a nutshell:
Although not actually written until sixty years later (but more on that in a bi...more

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Oct 31, 2010 Bruce rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a fictionalized account, through the eyes and voice of the narrator, H.R., of the last great Plague in London, in 1665. Defoe published it in 1722. Using charts and graphs from the time of the plague, Defoe adds to his account’s verisimilitude. “H.R.” may be a reference to his uncle who lived in the city at the time of the plague and kept a record of events that were occurring. This novel is one of the best accounts of the temper of the times and complements the journal kept by Samuel Pe...more This is a fictionalized account, through the eyes and voice of the narrator, H.R., of the last great Plague in London, in 1665. Defoe published it in 1722. Using charts and graphs from the time of the plague, Defoe adds to his account’s verisimilitude. “H.R.” may be a reference to his uncle who lived in the city at the time of the plague and kept a record of events that were occurring. This novel is one of the best accounts of the temper of the times and complements the journal kept by Samuel Pepys. This plague, in which 100,000 persons lost their lives, was followed one year later, in 1666, by the Great Fire that destroyed much of London, these two events precipitating the rebuilding and “reinvention” of London into the modern city that it became thereafter.

It is hard to avoid noting the similarities with which people of the time and people today respond to events that are frightening, apparently inexplicable, and disruptive, how people draw irrational conclusions about causes, now they conjure bizarre interpretations as to reasons for the events, how they fall back upon primitive and punitive religious explanations or simply attribute all that is happening to Divine Providence or Vengeance, and how social norms and conventions break down, the veneer of civilization proving to be shallow and fragile indeed. We see the same thing happening with the HIV epidemic, with 9/11, with the occurrence of natural disasters possibly related to global climate change - the list could go on and on. Humankind lives and responds with emotions, rationality seemingly coming into play only to justify and reinforce emotional reactions, and we fool ourselves to think that we are primarily rational creatures.

The narrator thinks that the plague was caused by some sort of infection and puts forth several theories about how it might be passed from person to person. Are these theories those prevalent in the early 18th century, when the novel was written, or are they meant to reflect theories that were just beginning to be considered at the time of the plague fifty years earlier? Even as he seems aware of the logical and even theological inconsistencies in the ways he views events, the narrator nonetheless tries to reconcile his determination to see the Plague through scientific eyes, seeking natural explanations for its existence and spread, and also to interpret it as some kind of Divine Retribution and to interpret vagaries in its expression as signs of Divine Mercy and Intervention. We see the same inconsistencies and illogic today, every day, as people try to interpret and understand suffering in their own lives. Some things, indeed, never do change.

I n a previous paragraph I suggested possible present-day analogies to the Plague in London, but in truth these are pale comparisons. Maybe more similar ones would be the nuclear bombings in Japan or the fire-bombing of Dresden, although these were sudden and relatively brief events, albeit with prolonged consequences, whereas the Plague dragged on for month after month. Nonetheless, the point is to suggest physical and psychological traumas that led people to respond in ways that are utterly at variance to their usual ways of living and coping with mundane stresses. It is difficult for us to imagine the multiple effects and ramifications of such an experience, the collapse of trade, the resulting lack of necessities, the collapse of civil order and dearth of personnel to carry out needed functions, all in addition to the pervasive terror caused by the threat of sudden and painful death. Even as he praises the steps taken by the municipal authorities for the isolation and care of those who are ill or the dead, the narrator points out how such measures were ineffective and could not have been helpful in controlling the spread of the disease. This novel can’t help but remind one of Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague.

The narrator’s descriptions of how the City recovered from the Plague and returned to its usual functioning are also of interest. Not surprisingly, most of the goodwill and mutual support and caring that occurred during the worst days returned pretty much to normal afterward, and the usual acrimonies and squabbles to which humanity is accustomed resumed. I could not help but reflect upon how the goodwill and support felt within the US and around the world in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy dissipated in the months and years following.
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May 16, 2013 Jesse Lopes rated it 3 of 5 stars

It must be said that Defoe was a thoroughly mediocre writer. It seems that Pope's judgment was not far off, saying that "De Foe wrote a vast many things; and none bad, though none excellent, except [Robinson Crusoe]". The "Journal" makes for very interesting reading, yet it is tedious and exceptionally dull; which fact is all the more confounding, when one considers that it is written in a journalistic, breakneck-paced style that positively commands excitement, and when one considers, in additio...more

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Aug 30, 2010 F.R. rated it 3 of 5 stars

One of the problems with reviewing the earliest authors of fiction is that they were writing at a time before the rules had been properly worked out. Novels took on the form we know and love because of these writer’s successes and because of their failures. It was up to them to forge the templates, and if a certain template didn’t work then they could try a new one with the next book.

‘A Journal of the Plague year’ is a case in point. Although Defoe was alive at the time of plague, this is actual...more

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Feb 03, 2012 Barb rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction

Very surprising book. I had thought it was an actual account told by an eyewitness, not (as it turns out) a story written by someone who was only 5 at the time of the plague. Certainly he must have heard detailed accounts from adults who lived through it. When I downloaded the book, it was classified as historical fiction. Another surprise, and one that got me thinking about what makes fiction "historical". As to it even being fiction -- well, it just doesn't feel like any fiction I've read late...more

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Jun 10, 2012 John Pappas rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is like a pop-culture garden. Rooted somewhere in Defoe's tale of a plague-stricken London in the late 1600s are the seeds of countless Zombie tales and films and medical outbreak dramas. Without this novel, perhaps Camus' The Plague (and main character Dr. Rieux) would not have been written. There's even a scene here that was parodied (but not by much) by Monty Python (The lines "Bring out your dead!" and "I'm not quite dead!" are both employed in this novel).

Defoe moves his death-de...more

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Jan 14, 2012 Admatha rated it 2 of 5 stars

I lied about this book. I didn't exactly finish per se - but I am pretty much done. I picked it up because it looked, from the title and from the back's description, like an actual journal. I quite like the epistolary format, but this was quite possibly the driest variation I've ever come across.

It wasn't so much a journal as a recounting - there were no daily entries, it's simply a one-man essay on what happened, and it is so very repetitive. "There were many deaths. People freaked out. The dea...more

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Sep 21, 2011 Londa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Biology and medical history enthusiasts, historical fiction lovers

This was a very interesting read, but it was also very difficult to follow. The lack of chapters, meandering streams of thought, and repetition caused me to skim large chunks of the book. Being a first of it's kind, that was to be expected.

It was interesting to see how they tried to contain the outbreak and how the government reacted to it. The book also shed some light on how the general public's mental health would be affected by something of this magnitude. This was one of my favorite passage...more

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Jan 06, 2013 April rated it 4 of 5 stars

A must-read for anyone interested in dystopian or post-apocalyptic literature. Defoe compels the reader to be drawn in so it reads like a non-fiction account of the 1665 London plague. We know what happens - 70 to 100,000 people die - so the narrative arc is not the story of the disease but the reaction to this "visitation", both for the city and for the narrator. I was surprised that it was not set up like a weekly or daily journal but more as a reminiscence of the period with not a little afte...more

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Sep 08, 2012 Shannon rated it 3 of 5 stars

Admittedly, I have been reading a lot of McLiterature lately. So cracking open A Journal of the Plague Year was a wake up call that there are books that take a little mental elbow grease to get through.

I'm currently doing a Yale Open Course called Epidemics in Western Soceity Since 1600 for which this is assigned reading. Honestly, this is a book I would read for course work and may have abandoned in everyday life, not only because of my current predilection for easy reads, but because it's dry...more

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Apr 11, 2010 Mad Russian the Traveller rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: physical-shelf

Daniel DeFoe is probably best known for his authorship of the novel, "Robinson Crusoe", and I have read that novel in abridged form years ago as a child. I plan to eventually read "Robinson Crusoe" in unabridged form (in an 1869 edition that I inherited from my grandmother), but not until I finish my current stack, so I decided to read this smaller work of DeFoe until I have time for the larger book.

As a published writer in a time when proto-newspapers were first coming into being in England, De...more

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May 14, 2012 Dave rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ergh. This was an inch away from being thrown at the wall. The editor insists that it's unfair to criticize a writer of Defoe's time for not following the "as yet unformulated conventions of the novel." Is it ok, though, if I hate him for all the maddening repetition and excessively random order of everything? For example, why introduce the three brothers' story and then say you'll talk about it later--50 pages later? The writing--not just because of its time --is excessively circumlocuitous ("....more

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Nov 25, 2011 Amanda rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction

Based on the title, I expected this fictionalized account of the black plague in London to be written in a journal format with the author telling the events of each day. Instead the author kind of rambles on about rumors he's heard about the spread of the plague and what he's been able to find out by walking around (he doesn't seem to have anything better to do). It was also rather annoying that he would start to tell part of his experiences and then interrupt himself and go off on another tange...more

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Apr 21, 2013 John Stiles rated it 4 of 5 stars

Surely Peter Ackroyd consulted this text in detail before writing Hawksmoor as there is a great deal of Dafoe's plague infected imagery in Ackroyd's celebrated historical murder mystery – also set in London. Where Hawksmoor opens with orphan child and future architect Nicholas Hawksmoor falling under the spell of the murderous Mirabilis, the Dafoe text, A Journal of the Plague Year (JOTPY), builds on the gradual but incessant listing of the sick and dying in London parishes. This is followed by...more

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Apr 03, 2011 Linh Hoang rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: advisory

The Plague is back and it's making England suffer more than ever before. The Plague caused the people to panic and the government to struggle to rid the cities of sickness. As the death toll climb and citizens start to flee the cities in hopes of dodging the sickness, one man decides to wait out the Plague in London.

Disease and death are both frightening things and can cause massive panic. The message in this book is to not let that panic cloud your thinking. Just like the main character, he di...more

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May 27, 2012 Andrew rated it 3 of 5 stars

First heard of this book when I read a scholary one on the black death,it mentioned this was written after the time of the plague but was very possible based on family pieces Defoe had picked up being not to long after events that the book was written.
Certainly the book has factual concepts as well as conjecture from around the time,the book is pretty well written and starts well...interestingly it had a feel of these post apocalyptic type novels that do the round..almost like a zombie apocalyps...more

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Mar 28, 2013 Razi rated it 4 of 5 stars

A very personal first person fictional account of the 1665 London Plague. The narrator acts as the eye-witness to the horrors of the plague and looks at it from many different angles surveying its impact at social, economic, psychological, moral and religious lives of the Londoners who lived through it. While Pepys gives it a passing description, Defoe's book is totally focused on the events of the year 1665 although the preceding major event (Anglo-Dutch War) and major proceeding event (the Gre...more

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Jun 20, 2012 Catherine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Good historical fiction that is probably closer to history than fiction. Although narrated in the first person by H.F., the majority of the content is anecdotal stories, hearsay, and statistics, with the result that at some points the text is rather dry. For a portrait of the time of the plague, however, particularly from the perspective of the later time in which Defoe was writing.

He does a good job of leading the reader on by saying he will refer to something a little later in the text; such s...more

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Apr 03, 2013 Sergio rated it 3 of 5 stars

A good early example of reportage. Defoe's style is detailed, sober, observational but not detached. The subject matter is obviously tragic and dismal and the format serves the material well, though it ultimately ends up weighing down the flow and makes it more than a bit tedious at times.

Defoe's decision to not separate the book into chapters is frustrating, though it does add a sort of stream-of-consciousness element to the account. That and his penchant to jump from one subject to another wi...more

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“a near View of Death would soon reconcile Men of good Priciples one to another, and that it is chiefly owing to our easy Scituation in Life, and our putting these Things far from us, that our Breaches are formented, ill Blood continued, Prejudices, Breach of Charity and of Christian Union so much kept and so far carry'd on among us, as it is: Another Plague Year would reconcile all these Differences, a close conversing with Death, or the Diseases that threaten Death, would scum off the Gall from our Tempers, remove the Animosities among us, and bring us to see with differing Eyes, than those which we look'd on Things with before” — 1 person liked it

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