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A fascinating look at the historical context and sources that inspired Daniel Defoe's classic novel, Journal of the Plague Year. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Excerpt from The Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year: Illustrated by Extracts From the Original Documents in the Burney Collection and Manuscript Room in the British Museum At the outbreak of the Great War, and for some years prior to that world catastrophe, I was working in the British Museum, the Public Record Office, and the Lord Chamberlain 's Office in London, pursuing certain investigations pertaining to the history of the English Drama and Stage. Throughout my quest among the documents of the years 1664 and 1665, I was again and again impressed with numerous strik ing resemblances between contemporaneous details of the Great Plague and Defoe 's account in his Journal of the Plague Year. With a piqued curiosity I fol lowed these clues until I had amassed overwhelming evidence of the complete authenticity of Defoe 's masterpiece of the imagination. These proofs were then submitted to a few scholars in England and America, and the unanimous and emphatic judgment of these critics was, that I had established beyond cavil the historical character of Defoe 's famous Journal, hitherto not merely accepted, but acclaimed and declaimed, as fiction. However, to make assur ance doubly sure, I pursued the investigation still further, and, in more than two hundred instances (not to mention the scores of statistical figures), re corded in the following pages, traced to their sources statements made by Defoe in the Journal of the Plague Year. In most cases the word-for-word originals have been quoted (or cited), and, added to these, equally convincing parallels have multiplied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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