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Streszczenie książki Niebezpieczeństwo! i inne opowiadania
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
Eight small submarines leave a harbor to bring Britain to her knees by cutting off her bread.
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Niebezpieczeństwo! i inne opowiadania — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 3 h 45 min3 h fast, 4 h 30 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 53 700
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1918by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Niebezpieczeństwo! i inne opowiadania in short
Taken as a whole, the book shows Doyle as a writer of many moods. The title story is a warning dressed as a war log. The middle tales are comedies of manners and pranks, in which each person plays a part with great seriousness.
What Niebezpieczeństwo! i inne opowiadania is about
What if a country with an enormous navy could lose a war without losing a single battleship? That is the question behind the first story in this collection, which Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about eighteen months before the First World War began. A small power sends eight submarines against Britain. They aim at her bread, not her warships.
Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but here he gathers ten tales that range far beyond the detective. You get prophecy, comedy and the uncanny, each in a story short enough for one sitting.
Dla kogo. You will enjoy this book if you like short stories with clear plots, quick wit and a touch of the uncanny. Fans of adventure, mystery and Sherlock Holmes will find something here.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A tiny fleet can starve a mighty island
The first story is told by Captain John Sirius of the small kingdom of Norland. He begins with a boast. Britain spent nearly a hundred million pounds a year on her army and navy, he says, yet none of it saved her. Doyle wrote the tale as a warning to his own country.
In a royal council, an ultimatum gives forty-eight hours. The King wants to surrender. Sirius promises to bring England to her knees within six weeks, using eight submarines. He will never fight a battleship. He will sink the merchant ships that carry food, since four fifths of Britain's food comes from abroad.
On April 10 the boats sail. In one day Sirius sinks five ships. A London newspaper shouts about a naval victory, but he watches the price of wheat, which keeps climbing. He treats the hunger he causes as cold arithmetic.
A nation that cannot feed itself is open to attack, whatever its warships cost.
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A gentleman highwayman robs three cars by night
The second story begins on a moonless Sunday night on the road between Eastbourne and Tunbridge.
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A footman defends his pride to a journalist
An American journalist writes about England for a New York paper.
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A reckless nephew bursts in on a dandy
The fourth story takes you to Regency London.
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A pilot goes hunting for danger above the clouds
The fifth story is built like a case file.
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A man tries living as a book hero does
The sixth story is a comic sketch.
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A scholar seeks silence and finds a mystery
The seventh story is told by James Upperton, a student of mystical learning, in the summer of 1885.
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A night drive down a steep hill goes wrong
The eighth story is the shortest in the book.
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A soldier explains why he fired the shots
The ninth story is a courtroom speech.
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Three children ask their father about everything
The last piece is a set of four sketches about a family.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Captain John Sirius A naval officer of the small kingdom of Norland who commands eight submarines and wants to starve Britain into surrender.
- Sir Henry Hailworthy A baronet and magistrate known for his horses, who has a private reason for riding the roads at night.
- Vereker Tregellis A witty young man expelled from Oxford who offers his uncle a plan to humble Lord Barrymore for a thousand pounds.
- Joyce-Armstrong A wealthy, moody airman and inventor who climbs far above the clouds to prove his theory about the upper air.
- James Upperton A student of mystical learning who wants perfect silence on Gaster Fell and finds strange neighbors there.
- Captain John Fowler A soldier on trial who defends himself and wants the jury to understand why he fired his revolver.
- Laddie An eight-year-old boy, gallant and truthful, who loves cricket and asks his father careful questions.
- Dimples A nearly seven-year-old boy with a loud voice and a big imagination, who befriends every creature he meets.
How it ends (spoiler)
Danger ends in peace, once Britain is nearly starved into asking for terms. The highwayman is the magistrate, who robbed a swindling banker out of revenge and promises not to do it again. Vereker wins his thousand pounds. Joyce-Armstrong never returns from his second expedition. The surgeon's secret is a sick father cared for by his children. The driver in How It Happened has died and is welcomed by a dead friend. Fowler's speech ends with the verdict still unspoken.
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What is Danger and Other Stories about?
It is a collection of ten tales by Arthur Conan Doyle. They range from a submarine war against Britain to a highwayman, a Regency prank, an airman in the upper sky, a moorland mystery, a courtroom speech and a sketch of three children.
What is the story Danger about?
A naval captain named John Sirius uses eight small submarines to sink merchant ships and cut off Britain's food. Doyle wrote it before the First World War to warn that a nation which cannot feed itself is open to attack.
Is Danger a true story, and when was it written?
No, it is fiction, but it is a warning drawn from real concerns about naval strategy and food supply. Doyle wrote it about eighteen months before the First World War began, and his preface explains his purpose.
Is Danger and Other Stories easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that each tale is short, with a clear voice and a plain question driving it. You can read one story at a time, and the comic and adventurous pieces are lively and quick.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Danger! and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/danger-and-other-stories.
Doyle, A. C. (2026). Danger! and other stories. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/danger-and-other-stories (Original work published 1918)
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Danger! and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/danger-and-other-stories.
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