Daniel Defoe is the famous English writer and publicist of the late 17th–early 18th century, whose works are still among the most widely read and loved all over the world.
“A Journal of the Plague Year” is, in a sense, a terrifying anti-utopia that shocked contemporaries with its cold and even slightly black ironic tone. In front of the reader appears the diary of an eyewitness to the Plague and all its terrible consequences…