Storm
Author: first_name: Daniel
last_name: Defoe
Language: English
Year: 1704

<i>The Storm</i> (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe.  Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, <i>The Storm</i> 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 histo