A Journal Of The Plague Year

Daniel Defoe’s ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’ (1722) is a fictionalized account of the bubonic plague epidemic that struck London in 1665 which Defoe witnessed as a five-year old, the year before the Great Fire of London. This work is among the first English novels. Like ‘Robinson Crusoe’, ‘Moll Flanders’ and several other of his novels, Defoe published this work as though it were based on primary sources and was not, so he pretended, a novel at all. This was Defoe’s way of developing an audience among the reading public for fiction writing.

The work is remarkable in its abundant use of “telling detail” to create an impression of verisimilitude, and for nearly two hundred years it was widely considered a pioneering work of journalism rather than a novel. Indeed, it is still assigned as required reading in journalism courses. (Summary by Dennis Sayers)

• Part 1 - 00:36:32
  
• Part 2 - 00:32:27
  
• Part 3 - 00:27:34
  
• Part 4 - 00:32:57
  
• Part 5 - 00:31:14
  
• Part 6 - 00:33:31
  
• Part 7 - 00:28:57
  
• Part 8 - 00:23:28
  
• Part 9 - 00:27:47
  
• Part 10 - 00:23:20
  
• Part 11 - 00:28:50
  
• Part 12 - 00:21:09
  
• Part 13 - 00:32:21
  
• Part 14 - 00:35:30
  
• Part 15 - 00:25:32
  
• Part 16 - 00:31:07
  
• Part 17 - 00:31:22
  
• Part 18 - 00:29:12
  
• Part 19 - 00:26:24
  
• Part 20 - 00:33:12
  
• Part 21 - 00:27:17
  
• Part 22 - 00:23:59
  
• Part 23 - 00:26:56
  
• Part 24 - 00:31:23
  
• Part 25 - 00:23:03

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The Android App "A Journal of the Plague Year Audio Book" is a full featured media player with:

• Selectable Table of Contents to allow to jump to the start on any of the chapters.
  
• Adjustable Progress Bar to allow to jump to any spot in the current playing chapter
  
• Previous Chapter Button
  
• Rewind Button
  
• Play / Pause Button
  
• Fast Forward Button
  
• Next Chapter Button
  
  
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