![]() Whether it should be called fiction or nonfiction has been widely debated due to its astonishing amount of factual details, but its ultimate fictitious nature of the authorship. This book was likely based on the journals and writings of his uncle, but is written with factual specificity and authority that place it among other contemporary accounts of the year. This instance of the plague killed 100,000 people over a year and a half, and was transmitted through rats that ran through the city.Ī Journal of the Plague Year was presented as an eyewitness account of the epidemic through the eyes of Londoners, though Daniel DeFoe was only a child during the plague. In 1665, London was struck by the bubonic plague, an epidemic that was the last major instance of the bubonic plague in England. ![]() “Another plague year would reconcile all these differences a close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us, and bring us to see with differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before.” ![]()
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