A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the plague struck the city of London. The book is a roughly chronological account, purporting to have been written several years after the event. It was in fact published in 1720 - Defoe was only five years old in 1665.

In the book, Defoe goes to great pains to achieve an effect of verisimilitude, identifying specific houses in which events took place, providing tables of casualty figures and discussing the credibility of various accounts received by the narrator.