Mr. Black's lecture on Defoe drew an audience that completely filled Sever 11. Defoe, said Mr. Black, was a man of action as well as of letters, and in his writings we see English affairs of his time ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. I first read Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year on a train from Boston to New York. That’s the truth. It’s not a ...
In 1722, Daniel Defoe pulled off one of the great literary hoaxes of all time. A Journal of the Plague Year, he called his latest book. The title page promises “Observations of the most remarkable ...