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The Storm (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Defoe, Daniel

 
9780141439921: The Storm (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141439920 ISBN 13: 9780141439921
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the most famous writers in English literature, was born in London, the son of James Foe, a butcher. It was Daniel who changed his name to De Foe or Defoe in about 1705. He was interested in politics and opposed King James II. After the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and William III was on the throne, Defoe became one of his personal friends. He became a writer for the government and a satircal writer on various social issues of the time. He turned to full time writing after hearing the inspirational story of a sailor who was rescued after living alone on a desert island in the Pacific, the result being his first novel ROBINSON CRUSOE. Several other adventure stories followed, including MOLL FLANDERS.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141439920
ISBN 13 
9780141439921
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Herausgeber
Hamblyn Richard
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