Storm

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Early Modern

Authors: Daniel Defoe In Year : 1704

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Storm

Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Ch. 4 - Of the Extent of this Storm
Ch. 4 - 'Tis very observable
Of the Effects of the Storm, Damages in the City of London
Of the Effects of the Storm, Damages in the Country
The following Letters, tho' in a homely stile
From Littleton in Worcestershire
At Brenchly in the Western Parts of Kent
It has been impossible to give an exact relation
Of the Damages on the Water
From Newport and Hastings the following Accounts
Nor can the Damage suffered in the River of Thames be forgot
Of the Damage to the Navy & Of the Earthquake
Of remarkable Deliverances
Another great Preservation
The two following Letters & The Conclusion

The Storm (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, The Storm narrates the calamitous events of November 1703 that are framed by the author in the first four chapters. These are followed by verbatim eyewitness accounts, solicited from survivors through a newspaper advertisement that Defoe placed shortly after the hurricane struck. Defoe is primarily known for his later fiction, loosely based on historical calamities, such as his Journal of the Plague Year (1722), and by fictionalized novels purporting to be first-person accounts, including Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722). It can be argued that The Storm was the journalistic crucible in which the master realist Defoe forged his later novelistic artistry, with its penchant for "the telling detail." In fact, his fiction novel The Plague Year remains a required reading for journalism students to this day, side-by-side with the non-fiction account of The Storm. –Denny Sayers