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Excerpt from A Journal of the Plague Year: Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London
Defoe's original title, The J oumal of the Plague Year, has been restored in this edition. The current title of the work, The History of the Plague, comes from the second edition, published after Defoe's death, and, to all appearances, without any previous authorization by him of the change in name.
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