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Peter the Brazen

George Worts

Peter the Brazen

Paper book: €26.99

Digital: €6.99

Original publication
1919
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
750
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Adventure, Children's Literature
Moods
Escape it all
Translated from
English

Book summary

Peter Moore, a wireless operator on Pacific liners, has the sharpest ear in the trade. In San Francisco's Chinatown, a woman throws him a note from a window ordering him to keep away. Soon he picks up a call for help in Morse code, and a young American woman is kidnapped. The adventure takes him all the way to a river near Shanghai, towards the domain of the “Grey Dragon”, a powerful mine owner.

A fast-moving mystery in early twentieth-century China, with a hero who has more daring than caution.

Its fast pace and direct sentences make it easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

망망대해에서 무선으로 잡힌 구조 요청. 피터 무어는 태평양 여객선의 무선 통신사다. 청각이 남달리 예민해서 다른 사람들은 듣지 못하는 신호까지 잡아낸다.

The world of the book

무선이 막 등장한 시절의 중국. 이 책은 1919년에 나왔다. 당시 대형 여객선들이 샌프란시스코와 중국을 이었다.

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