A Vivid Recounting of the Great Plague of London 'But it was impossible to make any impression upon the middling people and the working labouring poor. Their fears were predominant over all their passions, and they threw away their money in a most distracted manner upon those whimsies.' ― Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defore's A Journal of the Plague Year is a vivid chronicle of the Great Plague of 1665. Defoe's fictional narrator guides us through the shocking city at