A Journal of the Plague Year (FULL Audiobook) - part 1

A Journal of the Plague Year audiobook
by Daniel Defoe (1659/1661-1731)
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April 16th 2013: missing sections of this book have now been recorded, and the full book has been recatalogued.
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)

[@zavinullava]

Who's listening to this in the plague year?

[@MissMadeleineSwann]

👋

[@movingpicutres99]

zavinullava Second time--read the book about five years ago.

[@jeanhelms2621]

Listening here.

[@thomashanson5277]

Me!

[@FieryKTarot]

Me lol

[@go4ahike976]

Thanks for this. Good way to pass the quarantine...

[@TheSybil47]

Trump should listen to it also. :)

[@TheSybil47]

@Max Schultz Hahaha yes, exactly. He's too busy watching the stock market.

[@TheSybil47]

@Levi Brennan Thanks.

[@knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625]

I tried reading this book and found it tiring and difficult. Your reading made it much easier and quicker to understand. Thx

[@bashkillszombies]

You must be a smoothbrain, it's not difficult in the slightest and it's rather fast paced for it's time.

[@kamrynbrady5722]

So true I’m required to read it for school but it was really boring so I decide to do this and it is much better

[@mikaylaj6054]

Section 1 0:00-36:23 Section 2 36:49-1:08:46 Section 3 1:09:10-1:36:25 Section 4 1:36:52-2:09:31

[@lumpfish99]

i have just finished The Plague by Albert Camus......excellent.....now this......

[@henryjohnfacey8213]

Thank you for this. Excellent. I was born and brought up here in London I am familiar and know all these place names well and as a Guide would take Visitors around London. UK . I MUST RECOMMEND THE EXCELLENT BBC RADIO DRAMA with the actor Blake Ritson and the actress playing MOLL FLANDERS. "The fortunes and misfortunes of Miss Moll Flanders. Born in Newgate prison written from her own account." Thank you for this.

[@lh1842]

Many thanks for this upload.

[@rastaphyllis]

You are the goat for having this posted! Really saved my ass with that x1.75 speed!

[@NewsFortheLocals]

First time listening to this. It's been a week after they've been talking about the Coronavirus.

[@longgone696]

This is excellent. Your channel is a treasure trove.

[@personzorz]

But did they die WITH the plague, or FROM the plague?

[@hareecionelson5875]

Septic shock, caused by Yersinia Pestis infection

[@maryrichard967]

Thank you.

[@sands7779]

good narration

[@bartvisscher2647]

Great narration

[@FernandoPR11]

bookmark 00:34

[@alaskamilne5682]

Colossal is crazy shoulda read this

[@rebeccalia9874]

I hope when I look back at this comment, we have survived the coronavirus. So many lives affected!

Hmmm, a month later and I hope more than ever, it just seems to escalate in fear, another 2 weeks and we will know if the fear was warranted, but after today 13/03/2020, I think it really will be!

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

The global economic collapse caused by shutting everything down for a virus that primarily kills people 60+ with serious preexisting health conditions will cause oders of magnitude more death and destruction than the virus ever would have. Tens of millions of people are going to die who would have been fine, and the world will be changed forever. The world will never return to stability and prosperity in our lifetimes. All courtesy of the government.

I agree, how many people will commit suicide due to bankruptcy and foreclosures? How many depressed or people with OCD will die due to this? I wrote the last comment 1 week ago but things have changed! I had no idea then that the world would actually consider a complete shut down!

@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz Actually, I have never believed in conspiracy theories, but something just doesn't make sense here....Every government is going so overboard.....they have shut down the whole of the UK, even small towns where there is almost definitely no coronavirus at the same time as shutting down central London. I truly think a similar number of people will die as a direct result and then one must factor in all the ruined lives and higher taxes for the next generation....it just seems like it must be a conspiracy because it is just so stupid! But I simply can't believe in conspiracies so it must mean that the supposedly intelligent people in science and power must be stupid...take ur pick....is there a conspiracy or are the most intelligent still really stupid?

@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz Another example is just imagine how many people in third world countries are starving or diseased (other diseases) who charity helps and saves....charities will take a massive hit....from this alone probably millions of the worst off in the world will die!

[@hareecionelson5875]

"The people... were more addicted to prophecies and astrological conjurations dreams and old wives than ever they were before or since" More parallels with the current pandemic, people spouting all kinds of crock. Sad that even after Germ theory, people still believe this sort of thing

[@miagn5967]

So... People pretty much were behaving the same back then

[@bartvisscher2647]

August 3, 2020

[@marcsmith6244]

40:24 bookmark

[@bryine.willis8683]

> low communication...

[@tonys2357]

31:55

[@hareecionelson5875]

South Ark Edit: also, Ice lington

[@wisdommorepreciousthanrubi8321]

146

[@sabneraznik]

36:35 bookmark

[@tunesmithdainfinitytunegat1691]

Whoever god is must have wanted us dead

[@kennethd9344]

Horney boo jecoxvfo

[@xdearlifex]

Ahahahahah

[@bashkillszombies]

Libravox is obnoxious, the repetitiveness of the "This is a Libravox recording, blah blah blah." is just pure cancer. Sometimes books can have hundreds of speakers meaning you hear that every few minutes.

[@johnthomaso4208]

Nobody's forcing you to listen to it.

[@mikemanners1069]

This should have been read by an Englishman...not some bloody American from OHIO....sounds awful in yank accent....thumbs down.

[@00stobart]

Great to have available free, but agreed - there's a lot mispronunciations and weird inflections. Dx

[@petermichaelpetretich551]

How provincial of you...

[@00stobart]

@@petermichaelpetretich551 The Elmer Fudd pronunciation is what's provincial.

[@jayeevee1693]

his accent is probbaly closer to the english accent in those times...

[@jerome8601]

This is boring when does it get good?

[@gammon1183]

When it happens again , more than enough excitement to be had then 😎

[@jerome8601]

big dead cat lol damn

[@MissMadeleineSwann]

@@gammon1183 now I suppose

[@xdearlifex]

Pretty GODDAMN fascinating now

[@lumpfish99]

@@xdearlifex bet the dude who wrote the comment has died of covid.....