Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe

Published 1 November 1953
The shocking immediacy of Daniel Defoe's description of a plague-racked city makes it one of the most convincing accounts of the Great Plague of 1665 ever written.

A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe

Published 28 September 2020
Published in a handsome hardback edition, this fascinating story, packed with detail and incident, brings 17th century London to life as it struggles to deal with an epidemic of bubonic plague.