A Journal of the Plague Year. Daniel Defoe. New York: Penguin Classics, 2003. In light of the COVID 19 virus now spreading around the world, it seems appropriate to revisit Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, a fictionalized account of the Bubonic Plague in 1665 London. The contrast…
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