![]() ![]() In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the time the mass panics of a frightened citizenry and the solitary travails of Defoe’s. Indeed, it is still assigned as required reading in journalism courses.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit . A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. ![]() The work is remarkable in its abundant use of "telling detail" to create an impression of verisimilitude, and for nearly two hundred years it was widely considered a pioneering work of journalism rather than a novel. This was Defoe's way of developing an audience among the reading public for fiction writing. Like 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Moll Flanders' and several other of his novels, Defoe published this work as though it were based on primary sources and was not, so he pretended, a novel at all. This work is among the first English novels. Read by Denny Sayers.Īpril 15th 2013: missing sections of this book have been recorded, and the whole book recatalogued.ĭaniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) is a fictionalized account of the bubonic plague epidemic that struck London in 1665 which Defoe witnessed as a five-year old, the year before the Great Fire of London. ![]() A LibriVox recording of A Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe. ![]()
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