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

London-born Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) pursued a variety of careers including merchant, soldier, secret agent, and political pamphleteer. He wrote books on economics, history, biography, and crime. But he is best remembered for his fiction, which he began to write late in his life and which includes the novels Moll Flanders, Roxana, and the celebrated Robinson Crusoe.