The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.
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It's never safe to go back in the water..
tt was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first sign of trouble — a waming ot what was to come — took the form of a young woman's body, or what was left of it, washed up on the long white stretch of beach.
A summer of horror had begun.
First published in 1974, Jaws represented a terrifying high point of the disaster genre. It has sold over twenty million copies worldwide and given us a legend that refuses to die.
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Jaws: 大白鲨
2018-01-01, People's Literature Publishing House
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Jaws
2005, Random House
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Jaws: Les dents de la mer
1975, LES ÉDITIONS INTERNATIONALES ALAIN STANKÉ/HACHETTE LITTÉRATURE
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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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