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THE STORM Unabridged is Defoes chronicle of the Great Storm of 1703 a fusion of eyewitness reportage civic inventory and providential reflection that helped invent disaster journalism Through letters he solicited and edited he maps damage from parish roofs to naval squadrons tabulating losses quoting sailors and clergy and weighing early meteorological conjecture against moral meaning Its plain urgent prose braided with tallies and regional case ...Seguir leyendo