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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…

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How would you paraphrase the narrator's "coarse" verse?
Posted by mary m #247307
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Jul 04, 2012 3:13 PM
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at the height of the plague, so many people are dying in London That
Posted by christine h #250597
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on May 14, 2012 9:43 PM
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how does the fear of infectious disease affect many Londoners? How does it affect H.F.?
Posted by greg w #241993
Last updated by: Aslan on Apr 08, 2012 10:00 AM
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How do people act toward the end of the plague?
Posted by tom f #227889
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Feb 01, 2012 1:14 AM
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how many people died
Posted by kris a #226253
Last updated by: Aslan on Jan 23, 2012 8:59 AM
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why does the sexton admit the narrator into the churchyard?
Posted by e k #223273
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Jan 05, 2012 8:50 PM
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what does the metaphor "the common grave of mankind" suggest to the reader in "a journal of the plague year"?
Posted by l h #186401
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Dec 09, 2011 3:05 PM
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whats the best thing to write about for a free write
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Last updated by: Aslan on May 19, 2011 10:29 PM
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How did A Journal of the Plague Year relate to Defoes life?
Posted by joe j #180495
Last updated by: tracey l #96417 on Apr 30, 2011 2:25 AM
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defoe's purpose
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Last updated by: stacey l #39923 on Apr 24, 2007 7:49 AM
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