The Storm (Paperback, New ed)

On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. Eyewitnesses reported seeing cows left stranded in the branches of trees and windmills ablaze from the friction of their whirling sails. For Defoe, bankrupt and just released from prison for seditious writings, the storm struck during one of his bleakest moments. But it also furnished him with the material for his first book, and in his powerful depiction of private suffering and individual survival played out against a backdrop of public calamity we can trace the outlines of his later masterpieces such as A Journal of the Plague Year and Robinson Crusoe.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2005
First published:	May 2005
Authors:	Daniel Defoe
Editors:	Richard Hamblyn
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	272
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-143992-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > General
LSN:	0-14-143992-0
Barcode:	9780141439921

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