Manners Makyth Man
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy English short stories and want to read in spare moments
- Readers interested in English comic literature and stories with twist endings
- Learners who want to use public-domain eBooks for English extensive reading practice
- Literature enthusiasts studying W. W. Jacobs's short fiction
Not a good fit for
- Readers who need a Chinese translation and are not used to reading English originals
- Readers expecting long, complex plots or deep social analysis
- People with little patience for older English expressions
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the direction of the story, then revisit the twist at the end.
- Skip unfamiliar period expressions at first and look them up after finishing.
- Read alongside other Jacobs stories to see his narrative patterns.
- Use the eBook's search function to mark dialogue and observe how characters are portrayed.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
William Wymark Jacobs (1863–1943) was a British short-story writer, born in London in 1863 and died there in 1943. In his early years he lived around the Thames docks and was familiar with the lives of sailors and dockworkers, which led him to write a great many humorous sea stories, often in a light and witty tone. His best-known work, The Monkey's Paw, is a classic horror short story included in The Lady of the Barge (1902); noted for its tight suspense and sudden twists, it is still widely anthologized in horror collections. The library holds 109 of his works, including The Lady of the Barge and Others, Ship's Company, A Tiger's Skin, Captains All, and Night Watches; his common category is inspirational growth. Public information is limited and details of his life are largely unavailable, yet his fiction is distinctive in subject, blending humor with horror, and has had a lasting influence on later short-story writing.
