W. W. Jacobs

Many Cargoes (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Many Cargoes is a collection of tales by W. W. Jacobs, best remembered as the author of the classic horror story "e;The Monkey's Paw."e; Like many of the stories and novels Jacobs would pen over the course of his literary career, these humorous tales are mostly about sailors, their wily attempts to trick and bamboozle their colleagues, and their misadventures onshore and offshore.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Floating Press
• Seitenzahl: 287
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781776678280
• Artikelnr.: 48198411

Autorenporträt

William Wymark "W. W." Jacobs (1863 - 1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. Although much of his work was humorous, he is most famous for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw". Jacobs was born in Wapping, London; his father was a wharf manager at the South Devon wharf at Lower East Smithfield. He was educated at a private school in London and later at Birkbeck College (then called Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, now part of the University of London).