- Early works to 1800, Plague, History, Fiction
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.
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Grave, plot-driven, bleak and earnest.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Daniel Defoe
- First published
- 1895
- Pages
- 253
- Publisher
- G.K. Hall, G. Routledge, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 318
- Language
- und, German, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781776510870
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“IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus.”
**Daniel Defoe**, born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even referred to by some as among the founders of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism. ([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe))
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