More of Jacobs's droll sailor misadventures, this time stretched to a novel. At the centre are not one but two Thames River captains juggling women who want to marry them, the story has traces of screwball comedy. (Goodreads)
William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. Quite popular in his lifetime primarily for his amusing maritime tales of life along the London docks (many of them humorous as well as sardonic in tone). Today he is best known for a few short works of horror fiction. One being "The Monkey's Paw"(published 1902). It has in its own right become a well-known and widely anthologized classic.