The lady of the barge E-Book

William Wymark Jacobs

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint Self-Publishing
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

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A very precious collection of short stories by W. W. Jacobs, author of several humorous and ghost stories. This book includes: "The lady of the barge"; "The monkey's paw"; "Bill's paper chase"; "The well"; "Cupboard love"; "In the library"; "Captain Rogers"; "A tiger's skin"; "A mixed proposal"; "An adulteration act"; "A golden venture"; "Three at table". This ebook contains a detailed biography including all the publications of the Author and a smart biography. This interactive digital edition includes: Interactive Notes and Chapters, News about the Author, News about the Book, a very interesting Tag cloud of the Book and a link to connect to the Goodreads community to ask questions and share comments and opinions.

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A very precious collection of short stories by W. W. Jacobs, author of several humorous and ghost stories. This book includes: "The lady of the barge"; "The monkey's paw"; "Bill's paper chase"; "The well"; "Cupboard love"; "In the library"; "Captain Rogers"; "A tiger's skin"; "A mixed proposal"; "An adulteration act"; "A golden venture"; "Three at table".

This ebook contains a detailed biography including all the publications of the Author and a smart biography.

This interactive digital edition includes: Interactive Notes and Chapters, News about the Author, News about the Book, a very interesting Tag cloud of the Book and a link to connect to the Goodreads community to ask questions and share comments and opinions.

William Wymark Jacobs (September 8, 1863 - September 1, 1943), was a Britishhumorist, writer and narrator. And 'better known for one of his macabre tales, The Monkey's Paw, included in the book of short stories The Lady of the Barge (1902). Most of his work, however, is attributed to the comedy genre.

Jacobs was born in Wapping (London) in which wharf his father worked. He attended a private school and then at Birkbeck College. In 1879 he started working as postmaster. He published his first novel in 1885. His road to success has been relatively slow. For economic reasons, Jacobs does not have the courage to leave his job until 1899. He married the following year with a militantsuffragette, settling in Loughton, Essex, where today a plaque is stored in his memory.

His literary output has decreased enough during the Second World War, and has since applied himself mainly to adapt his stories for the stage. His first adaptation wasThe Phantom Jerry Bundler, which debuted in London in 1899.

Jacobs died on 1 September 1943 in Hornsley Lane (Islington, London).

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The master of the barge Arabella sat in the stern of his craft with his right arm leaning on the tiller. A desultory conversation with the mate of a schooner, who was hanging over the side of his craft a few yards off, had come to a conclusion owing to a difference of opinion on the subject of religion. The skipper had argued so warmly that he almost fancied he must have inherited the tenets of the Seventh-day Baptists from his mother while the mate had surprised himself by the warmth of his advocacy of a form of Wesleyanism which would have made the members of that sect open their eyes with horror. He had, moreover, confirmed the skipper in the error of his ways by calling him a bargee, the ranks of the Baptists receiving a defender if not a recruit from that hour.

With the influence of the religious argument still upon him, the skipper, as the long summer's day gave place to night, fell to wondering where his own mate, who was also his brother-in-law, had got to. Lights which had been struggling with the twilight now burnt bright and strong, and the skipper, moving from the shadow to where a band of light fell across the deck, took out a worn silver watch and saw that it was ten o'clock.