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Ship's Company, The Entire Collection, Classics To Go

This is a collection of short stories, set in the south of England, some time in the early years of the twentieth century. The dialogue is great - WW Jacobs brings his characters to life through the way that they speak to each other. Many of these characters are unpretentious working people, and the humour in the stories is the description of how they try and play tricks on one another or take advantage of one another, and whether or not they succeed and how. (Goodreads)

W. W. Jacobs

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.

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