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Daniel dafoe
Daniel DEFOE (1660 - 1731) It was only at the end of his life that Defoe turned to the novel, after years of journalistic and satirical writing. A Journal of the Plogue Year is a good example of this dual interest. It purports to be an eye-witness account of the epidemic of bubonic plague which had visited London in 1665. A mixture of recollection, historical study and imagination, the book almost reads as ction though the accuracy and realism of the narration are never sacri ced. The sam...