An edition of Jaws (1973)

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An edition of Jaws (1973)

Jaws

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  • ★★★★ 4.39 ·
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Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley worked as a freelance journalist.


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Doubleday & Company
Language
English
Pages
311

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Subjects
blue sharks, dolphins, shark cage diving, bang sticks, harpoons, Mafia, selectmen, connivance, great white sharks, thrillers, horror fiction, Fiction, Marine biologists, Police chiefs, Seaside resorts, Shark attacks, Sharks, Sea stories, Fiction, horror, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Jaws (Motion picture), Fiction, sea stories, Scientists, fiction, white shark, shark fishing, United states, fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, American fiction, Translations into Spanish, Spanish fiction, Literatura estadounidense, Roman espagnol, Fishes
People
Chrissie Watkins, Martin Brody, Larry Vaughan, Harry Meadows, Alex Kintner, Ben Gardner, Leonard Hendricks, Matt Hooper, Ellen Brody, David Hooper, Quint
Places
Amity, Long Island, New York, Woods Hole Institute

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Cover of: Jaws
Jaws: 大白鲨
2018-01-01, People's Literature Publishing House
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Jaws
2005, Random House
hardcover in English - Book-of-the Month Anniversary Edition
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大白鲨: Jaws
2000-02, Yi lin
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Les dents de la mer
1976, Hachette
paperback in French
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Jaws
1975-01, Bantam Books
mass market paperback in English - Bantam Edition, 2nd printing
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Jaws
1975-03, Bantam Books
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Jaws: Les dents de la mer
1975, LES ÉDITIONS INTERNATIONALES ALAIN STANKÉ/HACHETTE LITTÉRATURE
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Jaws
1975-01, Bantam Books
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Tiburón
1974, Editorial Pomaire
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Jaws
1974, Book Club Associates
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Jaws
1974, Doubleday & Company
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Garden City, N.Y., USA

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1974

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PZ4.B4572 Jaw, PS3552.E537 Jaw, PS 3552 .E537 Jaw

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
311 p.
Number of pages
311

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5433397M
Internet Archive
jaws00benc
ISBN 10
0385047711
LCCN
73080799
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0385047711
Library Thing
24251
Goodreads
941281

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