The Storm: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Storm, credited to Daniel Defoe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Storm by Daniel Defoe. Read in English by Denny Sayers. The Storm (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, The Storm 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 historical calamities, such as his Journal of the Plague Year (1722), and by fictionalized novels purporting to be first-person accounts, including Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722). It can be argued that The Storm was the journalistic crucible in which the master realist Defoe forged his later novelistic artistry, with its penchant for "the telling detail." In fact, his fiction novel The Plague Year remains a required reading for journalism students to this day, side-by-side with the non-fiction account of The Storm. Summary by Denny Sayers.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Storm
• Author credits: Daniel Defoe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 9:08:58

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• journalism
• history

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 20:58
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 24:38
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 22:18
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 43:42
5. 04 - Ch. 4 - Of the Extent of this Storm — 27:21
6. 05 - Ch. 4 - 'Tis very observable — 19:44
7. 06 - Of the Effects of the Storm, Damages in the City of London — 26:32
8. 07 - Of the Effects of the Storm, Damages in the Country — 35:27
9. 08 - The following Letters, tho' in a homely stile — 34:43
10. 09 - From Littleton in Worcestershire — 26:43
11. 10 - At Brenchly in the Western Parts of Kent — 28:43
12. 11 - It has been impossible to give an exact relation — 27:39
13. 12 - Of the Damages on the Water — 34:03
14. 13 - From Newport and Hastings the following Accounts — 35:44
15. 14 - Nor can the Damage suffered in the River of Thames be forgot — 36:58
16. 15 - Of the Damage to the Navy &\; Of the Earthquake — 27:19
17. 16 - Of remarkable Deliverances — 29:59
18. 17 - Another great Preservation — 17:39
19. 18 - The two following Letters &\; The Conclusion — 28:51

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