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Jaws

  • Peter Benchley

4.39

23 ratings

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.


Also contained in:

  • Best Sellers from Reader's Digest Condensed Books
  • Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Volume 2 - 1974
  • Three Complete Novels

Genres

  • 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
  • Requins
  • Romans, nouvelles
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About the author

  • Peter Benchley

    born 1940

    4.17

    23 ratings · 34 works

Editions

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    Hachette

    1976

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    Book-of-the Month Anniversary Edition

    Random House

    2005

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    Bantam Edition, 2nd printing

    Bantam Books

    1975-01

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    Bantam Edition

    Bantam Books

    1975-01

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People's Literature Publishing House

2018-01-01

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    Editorial Pomaire

    1973

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    Círculo De Lectores

    1973

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    Book Club Associates

    1974

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    Bantam Books

    1975-03

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    LES ÉDITIONS INTERNATIONALES ALAIN STANKÉ/HACHETTE LITTÉRATURE

    1975

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    52.-59. Tsd. Oktober 1980

    Ullstein

    1980-10

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    Yi lin

    2000-02

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    Distribooks Inc

    June 1983

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    Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition

    Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks

    2013

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    30 Ill Anl edition

    Newmarket

    June 14, 2005

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    Book Club Associates

    1975

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    First Ballantine Books Edition (15)

    Turtleback

    1991 08

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    New Ed edition

    Pan Books

    October 15, 2004

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    Bantam edition, 10th printing

    Bantam Books

    1975 01

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    Penguin Books

    December 1999

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    Random House 2005 edition, reprint (4)

    Random House

    2005

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    Bantam Edition, 4th printing

    Bantam Books

    1975-01

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    Doubleday & Company

    1974

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    Pan Macmillan

    2024

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    Loisirs

    1976-01-01

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    Alain Stanké

    1975-01-01

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    BCA

    1975-01-01

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    Book Club Associates

    1975-01-01

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    Bantam

    1974-01-01

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    Fawcett

    Jul 30, 1991

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    Altin

    1974

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    Lectorum Pubns Inc (J)

    June 1984

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    Planeta

    December 1995

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    Final draft.

    [s.n.]

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    Andre Deutsch

    1974

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    Pan Books

    1975

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    Reissue edition

    Bantam

    July 1, 1981

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    Tandem Library

    July 30, 1991

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    Andre Deutsch

    1974

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    Final draft.

    Hollywood Scripts

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    [1st ed.]

    Doubleday

    1974

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    ISIS Publishing

    April 1, 2000

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    Editorial Pomaire

    1973

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    Vodelei

    1991

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    Huang guan chu ban she

    1975

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    [Wen yi shu wu]

    1975

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    Carlton Books, Limited

    2012

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    Pan Macmillan

    2012

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2008