La Grande Tempete

by Daniel Defoe

Overview

La Grande Tempete is a translation of The Storm, written by Daniel Defoe after the storm of 1703. It is a collection of seventy letters bearing witness to various cases of devastation and divine protection on land and at sea. As the criticism would have it, this text is the first large-scale journalistic work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782406068099
Publisher:	Classiques Garnier
Publication date:	10/03/2018
Series:	Litteratures du monde Series , #24
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) was an English author best known for his adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe, that he wrote later in life. A prolific writer, Defoe authored several books on economics, history, biography and crime. He pursued a variety of careers including merchant, soldier, secret agent and political pamphleteer, but is best remembered for his fiction. Daniel Defoe's other widely read books include Roxana, Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year. The name of the Robinson Crusoe Island, located in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile, was inspired by Defoe's famous story.