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W.W. Jacobs

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William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short fiction and drama. His best remembered story is "The Monkey's Paw". He was born in Wapping, London, on 8 September 1863, the son of William Gage Jacobs and his wife Sophia, née Wymark. His father ran the South Devon wharf at Lower East. William and his siblings were still young when their mother died. Their father then married his housekeeper and had seven more children. Jacobs attended a private London school before Birkbeck College, where he befriended William Pett Ridgcap.

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Maymun Pençesi
Maymun Pençesi
W.W. Jacobs
The Lady of the Barge
The Lady of the Barge
W.W. Jacobs
13 Short Scary Stories
13 Short Scary Stories
Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Gabriel García Márquez, Richard Matheson, W.W. Jacobs, Frank Richard Stockton, Franz Kafka, H.O. Lovecraft
Dialstone Lane
Dialstone Lane
W.W. Jacobs
The Monkey's Paw
The Monkey's Paw
W.W. Jacobs
W.W. Jacobs
Three at Table The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 12.
Three at Table The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 12.
W.W. Jacobs
The Third Ghost Story Megapack
The Third Ghost Story Megapack
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lafcadio Hearn, F. Marion Crawford, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, A. T. Quiller-Couch, W.W. Jacobs, Gertrude Atherton, W. C. Morrow
7 Best Short Stories: Halloween
7 Best Short Stories: Halloween
Lafcadio Hearn, M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Leonid Andreyev, W.W. Jacobs
The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales
The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales
Gary Hoppenstand, W.W. Jacobs
Light Freights
Light Freights
W.W. Jacobs
The Lady of the Barge
The Lady of the Barge
W.W. Jacobs

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