Danger! and Other Stories
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TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2007Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido: - text
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- Transcribed from the 1918 John Murray edition by David Price
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger!_and_Other_Stories
Release date is 2007-08-19
Danger! Being the log of Captain John Sirius -- One crowded hour -- A point of view -- The fall of Lord Barrymore -- The horror of the heights (which includes the manuscript known as the Joyce-Armstrong fragment) -- Borrowed scenes -- The surgeon of Gaster Fell -- How it happened -- The prisoner's defence -- Three of them: A chat about children, snakes, and zebus; About cricket; Speculations; The leatherskin tribe.
Transcribed from the 1918 John Murray edition by David Price
"Danger! and Other Stories" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a collection of short stories published in 1918. The title story, written before World War I, depicts a fictional nation using submarine warfare to blockade Britain, forcing the country into starvation and surrender. This prescient tale eerily predicted Germany's U-boat strategy and reportedly influenced German naval thinking. The collection also includes "The Horror of the Heights," a science fiction piece about deadly invisible creatures dwelling in the upper atmosphere, alongside other tales of mystery and adventure. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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