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Deep Waters
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118 pages, Paperback
Published May 6, 2025
About the author
W.W. Jacobs
1,009 books164 followersWilliam 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.
~Literary Works
Many Cargoes (1896)
The Skipper's Wooing (1897)
Sea Urchins (1898) /aka More Cargoes (US) (1898)
A Master of Craft (1900)
The Monkey's Paw (1902)
The Toll House (1902)
Light Freights (1901)
At Sunwich Port (1902)
The Barge (1902)
Odd Craft (1903) : contains The Money Box, basis of Laurel and Hardy film Our Relations (1935)
Dialstone Lane (1902)
Captain's All (1905)
Short Cruises (1907)
Salthaven (1908)
Sailors' Knots (1909)
The Toll House (1909)
Ship's Company (1911)
Night Watches (1914)
The Castaways (1916)
Deep Waters (1919)
Sea Whispers (1926)
~Literary Works
Many Cargoes (1896)
The Skipper's Wooing (1897)
Sea Urchins (1898) /aka More Cargoes (US) (1898)
A Master of Craft (1900)
The Monkey's Paw (1902)
The Toll House (1902)
Light Freights (1901)
At Sunwich Port (1902)
The Barge (1902)
Odd Craft (1903) : contains The Money Box, basis of Laurel and Hardy film Our Relations (1935)
Dialstone Lane (1902)
Captain's All (1905)
Short Cruises (1907)
Salthaven (1908)
Sailors' Knots (1909)
The Toll House (1909)
Ship's Company (1911)
Night Watches (1914)
The Castaways (1916)
Deep Waters (1919)
Sea Whispers (1926)
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January 17, 2014
Very little difference between this and other W.W. Jacobs collections. In most of the
stories a night watchman tells of a disagreement he had, resulting in an awkward but humorous situation. This makes for pleasant enough reading, though the payoff is usually a letdown. No "Monkey's Paw"here.
stories a night watchman tells of a disagreement he had, resulting in an awkward but humorous situation. This makes for pleasant enough reading, though the payoff is usually a letdown. No "Monkey's Paw"here.
March 17, 2022
Entertaining listening 🔰😀
Eleven will written British romantic relationship adventure thriller short stories by W. W. Jacobs about people going through life in a British seaport. I read these as individual novellas with Alexa reading to me due to eye damage and issues they are interesting and fun. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or listening 🎶 to different types of novels 🔰🏡🏰🐕🐈 2022
Eleven will written British romantic relationship adventure thriller short stories by W. W. Jacobs about people going through life in a British seaport. I read these as individual novellas with Alexa reading to me due to eye damage and issues they are interesting and fun. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or listening 🎶 to different types of novels 🔰🏡🏰🐕🐈 2022
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