A Journal of the Plague Year
 A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe 1660-1731 first published in March 1722.The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665 in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically though without sections or chapter headings.Although it purports to have been written only a few years after the event it actually was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722.