A Master Of Craft W. W. Jacobs Author

by W. W. Jacobs

2021-04-11 14:02:11

A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, and the fore-scuttle and the companion were both inhospitabl... Read more
A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, and the fore-scuttle and the companion were both inhospitably closed. The quiet of evening was over everything, broken only by the whirr of the paddles of a passenger steamer as it passed carefully up the centre of the river, or the plash of a lighterman's huge sweep as he piloted his unwieldy craft down on the last remnant of the ebb-tide. In shore, various craft sat lightly on the soft Thames mud: some sheeting a rigid uprightness, others with their decks at various angles of discomfort. Less

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File size6.00(w)x9.00(h)x0.25(d)
Print pages118
PublisherCreateSpace Publishing
Publication date August 13, 2015
ISBN9781516890873
William Wymark Jacobs (8 September 1863 – 1 September 1943) was an English author of mainly comic fiction. He wrote occasional horror stories and is best remembered for The Monkey's Paw. He was born...

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