The Collected Works of W. W. Jacobs E-Book

W. W. Jacobs

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Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Monkey's Paw • The Old Man of the Sea • Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • The Monkey's Paw • The Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection • Odd Craft, Complete • At Sunwich Port, Complete • Stories of W.W. Jacobs • Self-Help • Night Watches • Deep Waters, the Entire Collection • The Ghost of Jerry Bundler and Charles Rock • Many Cargoes • Short Cruises • Easy Money • Ship's Company, the Entire Collection • Light Freights • The Well • An Adulteration Act • Dialstone Lane, Complete • The Three Sisters • A Master Of Craft • The White Cat • The Understudy • The Money Box • Salthaven • Breaking a Spell • The Boatswain's Mate • More Cargoes • Dialstone Lane • Sea Urchins • The Toll-House • Husbandry • The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • Watch-Dogs • Fairy Gold • Deserted • The Persecution of Bob Pretty • His Other Self • Back to Back • Sam's Ghost • Three at Table • The Castaway • Double Dealing • The Guardian Angel • The Persecution of Bob Pretty • Four Pigeons • Keeping Watch • Keeping Up Appearances • Friends in Need • Dialstone Lane, Part. • Lawyer Quince • Odd Man Out • Striking Hard • Captains All and Others • At Sunwich Port • Peter's Pence • The Bequest • Family Cares • Dirty Work • The Long AgoJ. W. Wright • The Unknown •. etc.

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Table of Contents

THE LADY OF THE BARGE AND OTHER STORIES

THE MONKEY'S PAW

DIALSTONE lANE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

THE THREE SISTERS

NIGHT WATCHES

CONTENTS

BACK TO BACK

KEEPING WATCH

THE UNDERSTUDY

THE WEAKER VESSEL

STEPPING BACKWARDS

THE THREE SISTERS

THE UNKNOWN

THE VIGIL

EASY MONEY

HIS OTHER SELF

MANY CARGOES

CONTENTS

A CHANGE OF TREATMENT

A LOVE PASSAGE

THE CAPTAIN'S EXPLOIT

CONTRABAND OF WAR

A BLACK AFFAIR

IN BORROWED PLUMES

THE BOATSWAIN'S WATCH

LOW WATER

IN MID-ATLANTIC

AFTER THE INQUEST

IN LIMEHOUSE REACH

AN ELABORATE ELOPEMENT

A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE

A CASE OF DESERTION

OUTSAILED

MATED

THE RIVAL BEAUTIES

MRS. BUNKER'S CHAPERON

A HARBOUR OF REFUGE

SHORT CRUISES

CONTENTS

THE CHANGELING

MIXED RELATIONS

HIS LORDSHIP

ALF'S DREAM

A DISTANT RELATIVE

THE TEST

IN THE FAMILY

A LOVE-KNOT

THE DREAMER

ANGELS' VISITS

SAILORS' KNOTS

By W.W. Jacobs

1909

Part 3.

SELF-HELP

THREE AT TABLE

ODD CRAFT

CONTENTS

THE MONEY-BOX

THE CASTAWAY

BLUNDELL'S IMPROVEMENT

BILL'S LAPSE

LAWYER QUINCE

BREAKING A SPELL

ESTABLISHING RELATIONS

THE CHANGING NUMBERS

THE PERSECUTION OF BOB PRETTY

DIXON'S RETURN

A SPIRIT OF AVARICE

THE THIRD STRING

ODD CHARGES

ADMIRAL PETERS

Why Some Succeed While Others Fail.

BY H. A. LEWIS.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

INTRODUCTION.

QUOTATIONS.

Daniel Drew.

Russell Sage.

Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Amos Lawrence.

Horace B. Claflin.

William E. Dodge.

Jay Gould.

John Wannamaker.

Alexander T. Stewart.

Nicholas Longworth.

Robert Bonner.

William G. Fargo.

James C. Flood.

John W. MacKay.

James C. Fair.

Horace Greeley.

Thurlow Weed.

George W. Childs.

James Gordon Bennett.

Phineas T. Barnum.

Mathew Vassar.

John Jacob Astor.

Potter Palmer.

James Harper.

Henry Disston.

Peter Cooper

Darius O. Mills.

Stephen Girard.

Moses Taylor.

William C. Ralston.

George Peabody.

William W. Corcoran.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild.

Thomas Jefferson.

John Marshall.

Alexander Hamilton.

James Madison.

James Monroe.

Lewis Cass.

John C. Calhoun.

Robert Y. Hayne.

Daniel Webster.

Andrew Jackson.

Thomas H. Benton.

Henry Clay.

Martin Van Buren.

Stephen Arnold Douglass.

Abbott Lawrence.

Alexander H. Stephens.

Millard Fillmore.

William H. Seward.

Horatio Seymour.

Winfield S. Hancock.

George B. McClellan.

Ulysses Simpson Grant.

Stonewall Jackson.

General Robert E. Lee.

Henry Wilson.

Abraham Lincoln.

Edward Everett.

Edwin M. Stanton.

Andrew Johnson.

James A. Garfield.

Chester A. Arthur.

John A. Logan.

James G. Blaine.

Samuel J. Tilden.

Henry Ward Beecher.

George Stephenson.

Benjamin Franklin.

Eli Whitney.

Robert Fulton.

Elias Howe, Jr.

Isaac M. Singer.

Richard M. Hoe.

Charles Goodyear.

Prof. S. F. B. Morse.

Cyrus W. Field.

George M. Pullman.

Thomas A. Edison.

Concentration of Effort.

Self-reliance.

Economy of Time.

Causes of Failure.

SAILORS' KNOTS

1909

DESERTED

HOMEWARD BOUND

SELF-HELP

SENTENCE DEFERRED

"MATRIMONIAL OPENINGS"

ODD MAN OUT

"THE TOLL-HOUSE"

PETER'S PENCE

THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY

PRIZE MONEY

DOUBLE DEALING

KEEPING UP APPEARANCES

THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA

THE LADY OF THE BARGE AND OTHER STORIES

By W. W. Jacobs

BOOK 2

THE MONKEY'S PAW

DEEP WATERS

CONTENTS

SHAREHOLDERS

PAYING OFF

MADE TO MEASURE

SAM'S GHOST

BEDRIDDEN

THE CONVERT

HUSBANDRY

FAMILY CARES

THE WINTER OFFENSIVE

THE SUBSTITUTE

STRIKING HARD

DIRTY WORK

CONTENTS

THE LADY OF THE BARGE

THE MONKEY'S PAW

BILL'S PAPER CHASE

THE WELL

CUPBOARD LOVE

IN THE LIBRARY

CAPTAIN ROGERS

A TIGER'S SKIN

A MIXED PROPOSAL

AN ADULTERATION ACT

A GOLDEN VENTURE

THREE AT TABLE

THE LADY OF THE BARGE AND OTHER STORIES

By W. W. Jacobs

BOOK 10

AN ADULTERATION ACT

SAILORS' KNOTS

By W.W. Jacobs

1909

Part 12.

KEEPING UP APPEARANCES

THE UNDERSTUDY

THE WELL

THE SKIPPER'S WOOING; and, THE BROWN MAN'S SERVANT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE BROWN MAN'S SERVANT.

CHAP I.

CHAP II.

CHAP III.

CHAP IV.

SAILORS' KNOTS

Part 7.

"THE TOLL-HOUSE"

THE CASTAWAY

MORE CARGOES

Frederick A. Stokes Company - 1897

MORE CARGOES

SMOKED SKIPPER

A SAFETY MATCH

A RASH EXPERIMENT

THE CABIN PASSENGER

"CHOICE SPIRITS"

A DISCIPLINARIAN

BROTHER HUTCHINS

THE DISBURSEMENT SHEET

RULE OF THREE

PICKLED HERRING

TWO OF A TRADE

AN INTERVENTION

THE GREY PARROT

MONEY-CHANGERS

THE LOST SHIP

The Yeoman Adventurer

By George Gough

A. D. Steel-Maitland, M.P.

In Gratitude and Admiration

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

THE GREAT JACK

CHAPTER II

THE SERGEANT OF DRAGOONS

CHAPTER III

MISTRESS MARGARET WAYNFLETE

CHAPTER IV

OUR JOURNEY COMMENCES

CHAPTER V

THE ANCIENT HIGH HOUSE

CHAPTER VI

MY LORD BROCTON

CHAPTER VII

THE RESULTS OF LOSING MY VIRGIL

CHAPTER VIII

THE CONJURER'S CAP

CHAPTER IX

MY CAREER AS A HIGHWAYMAN

CHAPTER X

SULTAN

CHAPTER XI

IN WHICH I SLIP

CHAPTER XII

THE GUEST-ROOM OF THE "RISING SUN"

CHAPTER XIII

PHARAOH'S KINE

CHAPTER XIV

"WAR HAS ITS RISKS"

CHAPTER XV

IN THE MOORLANDS

CHAPTER XVI

BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE

CHAPTER XVII

MY NEW HAT

CHAPTER XVIII

THE DOUBLE SIX

CHAPTER XIX

WHAT CAME OF FOPPERY

CHAPTER XX

THE COUNCIL AT DERBY

CHAPTER XXI

MASTER FREAKE KNOWS AT LAST

CHAPTER XXII

A BROTHER OF THE LAMP

CHAPTER XXIII

DONALD

CHAPTER XXIV

MY LORD BROCTON PILES UP HIS ACCOUNT

CHAPTER XXV

I SETTLE MY ACCOUNT WITH MY LORD BROCTON

CHAPTER XXVI

THE WAY OF A MAID WITH A MAN

EPILOGUE

DIRTY WORK

SAM'S GHOST

A CAPTURED SANTA CLAUS

THOMAS NELSON PAGE

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK 1902

COPYRIGHT, 1891, 1902, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published, October, 1902

CONTENTS

A CAPTURED SANTA CLAUS

I

CHRISTMAS AT HOLLY HILL

II

MAJOR STAFFORD COMES HOME

III

MAJOR STAFFORD GETS THE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

The Major's Christmas presents.

IV

THE BOYS LEARN SOMETHING OF WAR

V

THE SPY

VI

SANTA CLAUS PASSES THE LINES

VII

BOB SECURES A UNIFORM

Bob trotted around, keeping as far away from the light of the camp-fires as possible.

VIII

SANTA CLAUS SURRENDERS

"I'm goin' to get my papa," said the tiny swordsman.

By W. W. Jacobs

BOOK 3

BILL'S PAPER CHASE

EASY MONEY

A CAPTURED SANTA CLAUS

THOMAS NELSON PAGE

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK 1902

COPYRIGHT, 1891, 1902, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published, October, 1902

CONTENTS

A CAPTURED SANTA CLAUS

I

CHRISTMAS AT HOLLY HILL

II

MAJOR STAFFORD COMES HOME

III

MAJOR STAFFORD GETS THE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

The Major's Christmas presents.

IV

THE BOYS LEARN SOMETHING OF WAR

V

THE SPY

VI

SANTA CLAUS PASSES THE LINES

VII

BOB SECURES A UNIFORM

Bob trotted around, keeping as far away from the light of the camp-fires as possible.

VIII

SANTA CLAUS SURRENDERS

"I'm goin' to get my papa," said the tiny swordsman.

CONTENTS

AN ODD FREAK

A GARDEN PLOT

PRIVATE CLOTHES

THE BULLY OF THE "CAVENDISH"

THE RESURRECTION OF MR. WIGGETT

A MARKED MAN

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD

BREVET RANK

TWIN SPIRITS

SAM'S BOY

JERRY BUNDLER

FALSE COLOURS

BACK TO BACK

A MASTER OF CRAFT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XIII.

CHAPTER XIV.

CHAPTER XV.

CHAPTER XVI.

CHAPTER XVII.

CHAPTER XVIII.

CHAPTER XIX.

CHAPTER XX.

CHAPTER XXI.

CHAPTER XXII.

CHAPTER XXIII.

CHAPTER XXIV.

AT SUNWICH PORT

W. W. JACOBS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

SALTHAVEN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CAPTAINS ALL

CONTENTS

CAPTAINS ALL

THE BOATSWAIN'S MATE

THE NEST EGG

THE CONSTABLE'S MOVE

BOB'S REDEMPTION

OVER THE SIDE

THE FOUR PIGEONS

THE TEMPTATION OF SAMUEL BURGE

THE MADNESS OF MR. LISTER

THE WHITE CAT

SEA URCHINS

CONTENTS

SMOKED SKIPPER

A SAFETY MATCH

A RASH EXPERIMENT

THE CABIN PASSENGER

"CHOICE SPIRITS"

A DISCIPLINARIAN

BROTHER HUTCHINS.

THE DISBURSEMENT SHEET

RULE OF THREE

PICKLED HERRING

TWO OF A TRADE

AN INTERVENTION

THE GREY PARROT

MONEY CHANGERS

THE LOST SHIP

THE UNKNOWN

Ship's Company

CONTENTS

FINE FEATHERS

FRIENDS IN NEED

GOOD INTENTIONS

FAIRY GOLD

WATCH-DOGS

THE BEQUEST

THE GUARDIAN ANGEL

DUAL CONTROL

SKILLED ASSISTANCE

FOR BETTER OR WORSE

THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA

"MANNERS MAKYTH MAN"

First Edition

THE LADY OF THE BARGE AND OTHER STORIES

THE MONKEY'S PAW

I.

Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire.

"Hark at the wind," said Mr. White, who, having seen a fatal mistake after it was too late, was amiably desirous of preventing his son from seeing it.

"I'm listening," said the latter, grimly surveying the board as he stretched out his hand. "Check."

"I should hardly think that he'd come to-night," said his father, with his hand poised over the board.

"Mate," replied the son.

"That's the worst of living so far out," bawled Mr. White, with sudden and unlooked-for violence; "of all the beastly, slushy, out-of-the-way places to live in, this is the worst. Pathway's a bog, and the road's a torrent. I don't know what people are thinking about. I suppose because only two houses in the road are let, they think it doesn't matter."

"Never mind, dear," said his wife, soothingly; "perhaps you'll win the next one."

Mr. White looked up sharply, just in time to intercept a knowing glance between mother and son. The words died away on his lips, and he hid a guilty grin in his thin grey beard.

"There he is," said Herbert White, as the gate banged to loudly and heavy footsteps came toward the door.

The old man rose with hospitable haste, and opening the door, was heard condoling with the new arrival. The new arrival also condoled with himself, so that Mrs. White said, "Tut, tut!" and coughed gently as her husband entered the room, followed by a tall, burly man, beady of eye and rubicund of visage.