Just Listen: From A Journal of the Plague Year

Published: Sept. 18, 2019, 5:45 p.m.

The harsh reality of plague asserts itself not only in Edgar Allen Poe\u2019s story \u201cThe Masque of the Red Death,\u201d but also in Daniel Defoe\u2019s first-person account of the plague ravaging London in the year l665.