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.
| ISBN: | 9780141439921 |
| Publication date: | 27th January 2005 |
| Author: | Daniel Defoe, Richard Hamblyn |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 228 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Genres: |
European history Natural disasters |
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.
The Storm features in the following genres: European history, Natural disasters
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The Storm was written by Daniel Defoe, Richard Hamblyn and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Storm has 228 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Classics series
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