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A Journal of the Plague Year Study Guide & Essays

by Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year is one of Daniel Defoe's most popular and strangest works; it is an amalgam of history and fiction that attempts to relate what life was like in London during the plague of 1665-66. Published in 1722, nearly 57 years after the events depicted, the work is a first-person…

A Journal of the Plague Year study guide contains a biography of Daniel Defoe, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

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Posted By jamie l #327623 at Jun 05, 2013 9:01 AM

 

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Posted By christine h #250597 at May 14, 2012 9:34 PM

at the height of the plague, so many people are dying in London That

a. the king flees to the country
b. the dead have to be collected in carts
c. Defoe's narrator decides to leave the country
d. no records are kept of the numbers dying

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Posted By greg w #241993 at Apr 08, 2012 9:51 AM