This account of the Great Plague of London (1664-65) was first published in 1722. In it Defoe describes the horrifying daily events in London city as it was besieged by bubonic plague.
The JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR

Daniel Defoe: The JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR (1991, Blackwell Publishers)
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Published Aug. 14, 1991 by Blackwell Publishers.