{"_id":"65b03fd09b97d88874e9e4ef","title":"The Wreck","author":"Guy de Maupassant","code":"the-wreck","publish_year":1886,"words":4005,"original_language":"French","translators":["Albert M. C. McMaster","A. E. Henderson","MME. Quesada","Others"],"image":"ship.jpg","image_alt":"A masted ship. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary"],"description":"A man tells of how he found himself trapped on a shipwreck with an English family.","blurb":"We were on deck in an instant. It was too late. The water circled us about and was running toward the coast at tremendous speed. No, it did not run, it glided, crept, spread like an immense, limitless blot. The water was barely a few centimeters deep, but the rising flood had gone so far that we no longer saw the vanishing line of the imperceptible tide.","rating":3,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}