During the Coronavirus pandemic Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year gained a new popularity. Despite being an account of one man's experiences during the Plague of 1665, readers found many parallels with their own experiences of sudden death, mass sickness, panic and isolation. The book reads like a historical account. It's filled with weekly deaths neatly tabulated (another familiar
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