Who is ww jacobs

Project type all solo group. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws. Jacobs - William Wymark Jacobs 8 September — 1 September , an English author of short stories and novels. External Links Wiki - W. In , Jacobs began work as a clerk in the civil service, in the Post Office Savings Bank, and by he had his first short story published.

Jacobs was financially secure enough to be able to leave the Post Office in Jacobs is now remembered for his macabre tale "The Monkey's Paw" published in the collection of short stories The Lady of the Barge and several other ghost stories, including "The Toll House" published in the collection of short stories Sailors' Knots and "Jerry Bundler" published in the collection Light Freights.

However, the majority of his output was humorous in tone. His favourite subjects were marine life: "men who go down to the sea in ships of moderate tonnage" said Punch , reviewing his first collection of stories, Many Cargoes , which achieved great popular success on its publication in Michael Sadleir described Jacobs' fiction thus: "he wrote stories of three kinds; describing the misadventures of sailor-men ashore; celebrating the artful dodger of a slow-witted village; and tales of the macabre".

Many Cargoes was followed by the novel The Skipper's Wooing in , and another collection of short stories, Sea Urchins set the seal on his popularity. The title of the last reflects the popularity of perhaps his most enduring character: the night-watchman on the wharf in Wapping, recounting the preposterous adventures of his acquaintances Ginger Dick, Sam Small, and Peter Russet.

These three characters, pockets full after a long voyage, would take lodgings together determined to enjoy a long spell ashore; but the crafty inhabitants of dockland London would soon relieve them of their funds, assisted by the sailors' own fecklessness and credulity.

Jacobs showed a delicacy of touch in his use of the coarse vernacular of the East End of London, which attracted the respect of such writers as P. Wodehouse, who mentions Jacobs in his autobiographical work Bring on the Girls! The stories which made up Many Cargoes had a varied previous serial publication, while those in Sea Urchins were, for the most part, published in Jerome K.

Jerome's Idler. The novellas At Sunwich Port and Dialstone Lane exemplify his ability to create humorous scenarios with vivid characters. Jerome K. He said that Jacobs would often rewrite just one sentence for hours at a stretch. Wodehouse, and Mark Twain. The story has also been turned into a play, parodied on The Simpsons , and made into eight separate movies. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook.

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