The storm / Daniel Defoe ; edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Hamblyn.

By:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: London ; New York : Penguin, 2005.Description: xliv, 228 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:

0141439920 (pbk.)

DDC classification:

551.55/2/0941 22

LOC classification:

QC944 .D43 2005

Subject: "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 depiction of suffering and survival played out against a backdrop of natural devastation are the outlines of Defoe?s later masterpieces, A Journal of the Plague Year and Robinson Crusoe." Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	551.5520941 DEF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900106346

"First published 1704"--T.P. verso.

"This edition first published by Allen Lane, 2003"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxix-xlii)

"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 depiction of suffering and survival played out against a backdrop of natural devastation are the outlines of Defoe?s later masterpieces, A Journal of the Plague Year and Robinson Crusoe." Back cover.

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