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A good fit for
- English readers who want to start with short stories in British humorous fiction
- Teachers who need public-domain English texts for classroom extensive reading
- Readers who want to finish an English original in fragmented time
- Readers interested in late nineteenth-century English short stories about everyday life
Not a good fit for
- Readers with no English reading ability who only want a Chinese translation
- Readers expecting a long, complete plot and complex character arcs
- Readers who need a systematic author anthology or annotated research materials
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the plot, then revisit dialogue and turns to appreciate the satire.
- Mark unfamiliar slang and colloquial expressions as you read, and look them up afterward.
- Read alongside other Jacobs short stories and compare common features of his humor.
- If used in class, discuss in groups whether the ending's surprise turn is convincing.
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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.
