S4 Ep88: A Journal of the Plague Year: An Interesting Historical Artifact

About this episode

The episode discusses Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, highlighting its historical significance and the varying levels of interest among the hosts.

In this episode, the Spiders discuss A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. While interesting as an historical artifact, the novel leaves at least one of the Spiders bored.

People in this episode

Host: Xi Draconis Books

Topics covered

• historical artifact
• literature
• novel discussion
• boredom
• Defoe's work

Keywords

• A Journal of the Plague Year
• Daniel Defoe
• historical artifact
• literature
• boredom

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Journal of the Plague Year

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