The Storm Papeback -
by Daniel Defoe
- New
On the evening of November 26, 1703, a hurricane from the north Atlantic hammered into Britain: it remains the worst storm the nation has ever experienced. Eyewitnesses saw cows thrown into trees and windmills ablaze from the friction of their whirling sails and some 8,000 people lost their lives. For Defoe, bankrupt and just released from prison for his 'seditious' writings, the storm struck during one of his bleakest moments. But it also furnished him with material for his first book, and in this powerful depiction of suffering and survival played out against a backdrop of natural devastation we can trace the outlines of Defoe's later masterpieces, A Journal of the Plague Year and Robinson Crusoe.
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- Title The Storm
- Author Daniel Defoe
- Binding Papeback
- Edition New Ed
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books , London
- Date pp. xliv + 228
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6663552
- ISBN 9780141439921 / 0141439920
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.57 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 1.45 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain, Hurricanes - Great Britain
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005276151
- Dewey Decimal Code 551.552