The Plague is a disease that has a long and tragic history alongside humanity’s development of tightly packed cities.A Journal of a Plague Yearis a first-person narrative account of London’s last great plague outbreak in 1665, which killed an estimated 100,000 people in just 18 months.
Though written in the first-person perspective byDaniel Defoe, he was only 5 years old during the outbreak. The initials at the end of the work,...
