Ship's Company

by W.W. Jacobs, Will Owen (Illustrator)

William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. He is now best remembered for his macabre tales The Monkey's Paw, and The Toll House (in the collection of short stories The Lady of the Barge). However the majority of his output was humorous in tone.

190 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1911

About the author

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.


~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)

Reviews

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining listening 🔰😀

Twelve will written British romantic relationship adventure thrillers short stories by W. W. Jacobs about life in a British seaport as people go through their daily lives. 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

[Neil · Rating 3 out of 5]

More short stories from Jacobs these are all comic although some are better than others. Fun but, having just read the book I'd be hard pressed to remember any of the stories, some feature sailors some don't and some are told by the night Watchman.

[Luke Wilder · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of small stories. Each story is set in an everyday setting, and has no real culmination not conclusion. This book is great for light reading.

[Mike Jennings · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't go wrong with W.W. Jacobs.

Fair enough, you either like this kind of thing or you don't, and it's difficult to tell without actually reading some, so here's a sample from a nice little story about what trouble you can get into because of other people being jealous. "I was only saying to my Mrs the other day how I couldn't ever imagine being jealous of her. You'd think she'd be pleased, but no she goes and spoils the best frying pan we've got". That's not an exact quote, but if it brought a smile to your face you'll like W.W. Jacobs' short stories. Some of them don't even go anywhere, quite often nothing much happens as the tale unfolds but somehow they're enjoyable. Then every so often there's a right little corker.

Give him a go.

[F]

This is a collection of short stories. It seems very dated now - 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. The 'war of the sexes' is something that seems completely dated nearly 100 years later and by 21st century standards full of political incorrectness. This is what makes these stories charming, slightly bizarre, sometimes puzzling, often very entertaining.