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Captains All and Others
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017This collection brings together some of W. W. Jacobs most beloved short stories, which will appeal to fans of writers such as O. Henry, Charles Dickens and P. G. Wodehouse. The sto...
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Captain Rogers : The Lady of the Barge and Others Series, Part 7
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017A quiet, unassuming man named Mr. Mullet has achieved a measure of success as the proprietor of an upscale hotel. But when a mysterious stranger shows up in town threatening to rev...
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Fanny and the Servant Problem
Jerome, Jerome K.The Floating Press 2017In this hilarious play from renowned English humorist Jerome K. Jerome, heroine Fanny is a well-regarded actress who marries an affluent artist. When she arrives at her new home, s...
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Deep Waters : The Entire Collection
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017The stories in this collection hearken back to some of W. W. Jacobs' favorite settings and milieus: ships at sea and the wharfs of London, where a misanthropic nightwatchman thinks...
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Fine Feathers : Ship's Company Series, Part 1
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017In this clever tale from W. W. Jacobs, a grocer is nagged to within an inch of his life by his pretentious wife and her family, who want the man to display finer manners. But when...
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Back to Back : Night Watches Series, Part 1
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017A husband and wife's scheme to bilk money from the husband's employer, a railroad company, veers hilariously off track in this tale from W. W. Jacobs, a renowned master of the shor...
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Rimfrost i den bästa av världar
Eklöf, JohanGraptolit Ord & NaturVarde ljus. Varde naturlig selektion,naturliga drifter och perfektion. Rimfrost i den bästa av världar är en episk och poetisk betraktelse över vår samtid, från Birger Kung till B...
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Four Pigeons : Captains All Series, Book 7
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017In this charming story from W. W. Jacobs, a pub denizen spins a yarn about a shooting party that went horribly awry. Though best remembered for his macabre tale "The Monkey's Paw,"...
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His Other Self : Night Watches Series, Part 10
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017The world's prickliest nightwatchman is at it again in this funny tale from W. W. Jacobs. After mistaking one sailor for his twin brother during a chance meeting on the wharf, the...
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Bill's Paper Chase : Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 3
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017Another of W. W. Jacobs' stories told from the perspective of an irascible nightwatchman walking the wharfs of London, the hilarious "Bill's Paper Chase" focuses on the sailors the...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Johnson, SamuelThe Floating Press 2017In this thought-provoking parable from esteemed essayist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, a young prince has been banished to a small, secluded valley until it is his time to asce...
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Dual Control : Ship's Company Series, Part 8
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017A young man is distraught over the fact that the lovely lady who has won his heart doesn't seem to return his affections. But when he turns to her uncle for advice in winning her o...
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Keeping Watch : Night Watches Series, Part 2
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017"Keeping Watch" is another in a series of W. W. Jacobs' tales that are the reminiscences of an on-duty nightwatchman. In this story, the guard catches a glimpse of a passing couple...
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Easy Money : Night Watches Series, Part 9
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017In this story, a group of sailor friends reminisce about their early love affairs and their feelings about marriage. "Easy Money" is part of the collection Night Watches, in which...
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Manners Makyth Man : Ship's Company Series, Part 12
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017In this short story from W. W. Jacobs' 1911 collection Ship's Company, a tense confrontation that is about to boil over is suddenly forgotten when an accident happens and temporari...
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The Convert : Deep Waters Series, Part 5
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017A man named Mr. Billings has hit rock-bottom and tries to turn over a new leaf with the help of his friends and family, giving up his love of fisticuffs and bar fights and cutting...
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Many Cargoes
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017Many Cargoes is a collection of tales by W. W. Jacobs, best remembered as the author of the classic horror story "The Monkey's Paw." Like many of the stories and novels Jacobs woul...
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The Angel and the Author, and Others
Jerome, Jerome K.The Floating Press 2017In this amusing novel, Jerome K. Jerome takes what should be grim subject — bargaining with an angel who is attempting to record one's life's deeds and misdeeds — and transforms it...
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Sea Urchins
Jacobs, W. W.The Floating Press 2017The publication of this collection of short stories marked a turning point in author W. W. Jacobs' literary career. The book was a major success, and it was at this point that Jaco...
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Novel Notes
Jerome, Jerome K.The Floating Press 2017In this rollicking novel from respected British humorist Jerome K. Jerome, a group of four friends decide to stake their claim to literary fame by writing a book together. However,...