Admiral Peters
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A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy English short stories and prefer light, brisk narratives
- Literature enthusiasts who want to understand the tradition of modern British short fiction
- Learners who need short materials for English extensive reading practice
- Free-reading users interested in public-domain ebook resources
Not a good fit for
- Readers who need a Chinese translation or a bilingual edition
- Readers who prefer novels and grand narratives
- People with little experience reading English who are easily put off by old-fashioned expressions
Reading tips
- First skim to grasp the character relationships and the direction of events, then read the dialogue closely.
- Excerpt unfamiliar old-fashioned expressions separately, look them up in a focused way, and organize them.
- After reading, summarize the plot turns in your own words to check your comprehension.
- Read alongside other short stories by the same author and compare how beginnings and endings are handled.
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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.
