The Storm
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in 18th-century English social history and the history of disasters
- Readers who want to understand the early forms of reportage and disaster writing
- Readers who like Defoe's work and wish to explore his non-fiction
- Readers with sufficient English reading ability who are willing to engage with the original English text
Not a good fit for
- General fiction readers expecting tight plots and invented stories
- Beginners with weak English who want light reading
- Readers who prefer contemporary disaster reportage and lack patience for older prose styles
Reading tips
- Read the table of contents and prefatory passages first to understand the book's sources and structure, then move on to specific accounts of the disaster.
- Read in thematic groups, separating shipwrecks, damage on land, and social responses, to make the overall thread easier to follow.
- Mark unfamiliar place names and old institutional terms first, then look them up together after finishing a section, so as not to interrupt the rhythm.
- Read alongside materials on modern British history or early journalism history to understand the author's methods of recording.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Daniel Defoe (1661?–1731) was an English novelist, political writer and journalist, and a founding figure of realist fiction in the English Enlightenment. His birth year is recorded variously; the library lists 1660, and he died in 1731. A prolific author, he is represented here by 59 works, the best known being Robinson Crusoe, alongside Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year. His novels often follow individual fortunes and adventures, written in a plain, concrete and realistic style that presents characters' circumstances and choices in unadorned narrative, and his influence on the development of English realist fiction is far-reaching. Commonly classified under inspirational growth, his works are still read today as important accounts of endurance and self-reliance.
