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• Part of the book series (LICOM) Abstract A Journal of the Plague Year, published in 1722, can claim with some justification to be the first historical novel in the English language. Rapidshare Nightstud 2 V1 0bs Concert Tour Entrepreneur Free Download more. Baumgarten Aesthetics Pdf To Jpg. on this page. Its title-page proclaims it to be ‘Observations or Memorials of the most Remarkable Occurences, as well Public as Private, which happened in London during the last Great Visitation in 1665: Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London’.

Defoe was such a skilful journalist that he succeeds in creating an illusion of authenticity, so much so that many contemporary readers accepted the Journal at face value as an eye-witness account written at the time of the Great Plague. Even today it is easy to make the same mistake, lulled by Defoe’s expertise as a literary counterfeiter into a total suspension of disbelief.