OCTOPUSES IN LITERATURE

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1. A young woman working in a dreary aquarium finds a connection to her missing father in a giant Pacific octopus named Dolores.



2. Features a famous battle where the hero fights a giant octopus in a cave, defining the creature’s early reputation as a deadly sea monster.



3. Partially narrated by a witty, captive giant Pacific octopus at an aquarium who helps a lonely widow solve a decades-old mystery.


4. Science-fiction thriller set in a near-future world where a newly discovered species of octopus develops its own complex language, culture, and tool use.


5. Features a cosmic entity with an octopus-like head, establishing the creature as a symbol of unknowable terror.


6. Features a submarine attacked by a school of giant octopuses (referred to in the text as giant poule [octopus] but translated as squid; monstrous cephalopods in any case) that tear a crew member away.


7. While it doesn't feature an actual octopus, it is famous for using the octopus as a massive metaphor, representing the monopolistic, land-grabbing Pacific Railroad, stretching its suffocating tentacles across California to crush local wheat farmers.


8. Features a dachshund with a lump on her head whose owner thinks of it as an octopus and does battle with it.


9. Historical steampunk fantasy set in 1883 London, featuring a mischievous mechanical clockwork octopus who acts like a real pet.


10. Set in Tasmania, features a woman recovering from cancer who becomes obsessed with the local octopuses. Also features sections written from the first-person perspective of an octopus.

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