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by Peter Benchley
About 8 pages (2,457 words)
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Literary Precedents

The use of a giant squid as a mysterious source of danger has been a standard device for the novelist for over a hundred years. Homer in The Odyssey had made the Scylla a mythical monster, and the actual creature is still not well known. Victor Hugo used it in an episode of his Les Travailleurs de.....

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Beast from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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