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A Journal of a Plague Year takes readers through the neighborhoods, houses, and streets that are changing rapidly due to the rising death toll. Formerly bustling with business, the doors are now marked with the cross to signify a house of death, the streets once busy with hubbub give way to death-carts as the epidemic progresses . . .
Actually written sixty years after the plague of 1665 swept through London, Defoe brings the city to life in all of its hardship and fear in what feels like a deeply personal firsthand account that reveals the masterful balance Defoe possessed as both a historical and imaginative writer.