LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Are searching for valuables
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Want to help those not truly dead
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Want to join their loved ones
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Are in despair and dying
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Journal of the Plague Year is a work of fiction masquerading as a work of fact. It reads as if it were an unembellished account of the personal experiences of someone who survived the epidemic of bubonic plague that struck London in the summer of 1665.
Detailed explanation-2: -Daniel Defoe wrote this short book in 1722 a few years after writing Robinson Crusoe, considered the first novel. The book is written a non-fiction description of the bubonic plague of 1665 drawn largely from his uncle’s diary who lived through the period.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Journal of the Plague Year, account of the Great Plague of London in 1664–65, written by Daniel Defoe and published in 1722.
Detailed explanation-4: -Defoe intended the book as a warning. At the time of publication there was alarm that plague in Marseilles could cross into England. It is a kind of practical handbook of what to do, and more importantly, what to avoid during a deadly outbreak.