W.W. Jacobs
Born
in Wapping, London, England, The United Kingdom
September 08, 1863
Died
September 01, 1943
Genre
The Monkey's Paw
304 editions
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1902
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The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and Macabre
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25 editions
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1978
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The Monkey's Paw The Lady of the Barge and Others Part 2
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The Toll House
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1909
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Piccola guida tascabile agli animali pericolosi in letteratura. Ovvero la zoologia come espediente per la letteratura
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The Lady of the Barge and Other Stories by W. W. Jacobs, Classics, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Sea Stories
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1902
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Sailors Knots
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Maymun Pençesi ve Diğer Öyküler
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Strange Stories of the Supernatural
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5 editions
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1980
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The Old Man of the Sea Ship's Company, Part 11.
20 editions
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2004
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“She stooped for a stone and dropped it down.
'Fancy being where that is now,' she said, peering into the blackness; 'fancy going round and round like a mouse in a pail, clutching at the slimy sides, with the water filling your mouth, and looking up to the little patch of sky above.'
'You had better come in,' said Benson, very quietly. 'You are developing a taste for the morbid and horrible.' ("The Well")”
― Ghost Stories
'Fancy being where that is now,' she said, peering into the blackness; 'fancy going round and round like a mouse in a pail, clutching at the slimy sides, with the water filling your mouth, and looking up to the little patch of sky above.'
'You had better come in,' said Benson, very quietly. 'You are developing a taste for the morbid and horrible.' ("The Well")”
― Ghost Stories
“I've never understood it,' continued Wilfred Carr, yawning. 'It's not in my line at all; I never had enough money for my own wants, let alone for two. Perhaps if I were as rich as you or Croesus I might regard it differently.'
There was just sufficient meaning in the latter part of the remark for his cousin to forbear to reply to it. He continued to gaze out of the window and to smoke slowly.
'Not being as rich as Croesus - or you,' resumed Carr, regarding him from beneath lowered lids, 'I paddle my own canoe down the stream of Time, and, tying it to my friends' doorposts, go in to eat their dinners.' ("The Well")”
― The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and Macabre
There was just sufficient meaning in the latter part of the remark for his cousin to forbear to reply to it. He continued to gaze out of the window and to smoke slowly.
'Not being as rich as Croesus - or you,' resumed Carr, regarding him from beneath lowered lids, 'I paddle my own canoe down the stream of Time, and, tying it to my friends' doorposts, go in to eat their dinners.' ("The Well")”
― The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and Macabre
“But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy.”
― The Monkey's Paw
― The Monkey's Paw
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October 2021 Short Story/Novella Poll
The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, 40 pages, 1893
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot, 75 pages, 1859
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous, 120 pages, -1800
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs, 32 pages, 1902
On Books and Reading by Arthur Schopenhauer, 7+- pages, 1851
The Viy by Nikolai Gogol, 66 pages, 1835
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, 130+- pages, 1948
The Altar of the Dead by Henry James, 48 pages, 1895
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