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The storm which hit the south of England 296 years ago today, on the night of November 26th, 1703, was of such severity that it has gone down in history as "the Great Storm". From the north Atlantic it hammered into 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 Daniel 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, "The Storm", 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".
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction, Horror
Length7 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 28, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Preface
2Chapter I. Of the natural causes and original of winds.
3Chapter II. Of the opinion of the Ancients, that this island was more subject to storms than other parts of the world.
4Chapter III. Of the Storm in general.
5Chapter IV. Of the extent of this Storm, and from what parts it was supposed to come; with some circumstances as to the time of it.
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6Chapter V. Of the Effects of the Storm. (pt. 1)
7Chapter V. Of the Effects of the Storm. (pt. 2)
8The Conclusion
9Defoe´s Poetical Essay on the Storm
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