A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is our reading group book for May

This 1722 ‘portrait of the face of London now indeed strangely altered’ offers a fascinating perspective on our current crisis

This month, we’re going to read A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, free to read on Project Gutenberg. This has been a popular request, for obvious reasons. It’s a book that will give us some useful perspective on our current crisis. It’s also been a source of wonder for centuries, with its stories of “the face of London now indeed strangely altered”, where, over 18 months in 1665 and 1666, the city lost 100,000 people – nearly a quarter of its population.

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