In 'Captains All and Others' by W. W. Jacobs, readers are invited into the world of maritime adventures through a collection of nautical tales filled with humor, suspense, and moral lessons. Written in a clear and engaging style, the stories provide a glimpse into the lives of sailors and sea captains, highlighting the challenges and thrill of life at sea. Jacobs' use of witty dialogue and vivid descriptions creates a compelling narrative that showcases the author's deep understanding of the human experience in unique settings. The book is a fine example of late 19th-century British literature, capturing the essence of the time and offering timeless themes of camaraderie, bravery, and the unpredictability of the sea. Fans of classic fiction and maritime adventures will appreciate the immersive storytelling and rich character development found in 'Captains All and Others'.
The Light Has Been Broken: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales : The Mark of the Beast, The Ghost Pirates, The Vampyre, Sweeney Todd, The Sleepy Hollow…
Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adelbert von Chamisso, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, John Buchan, Louis Tracy, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, William Archer, Daniel Defoe, John Kendrick Bangs, Cleveland Moffett, Brander Matthews, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Horace Walpole, Rudyard Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, Hugh Walpole, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving, Leonid Andreyev, David Lindsay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Edward Bellamy, Walter Hubbell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Leopold Kompert, Richard Marsh, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, John William Polidori, Vincent O'Sullivan, H. G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, M. P. Shiel, E. F. Benson, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, E. T. Hoffmann, Stanley G. Weinbaum, George W. Reynolds, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Edith Nesbit, Sabine Baring-Gould, William Thomas Beckford, Francis Marion Crawford, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Mary E. Freeman, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Frank R. Stockton, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Ann Radcliffe, Louisa M. Alcott, Amelia B. Edwards, Leonard Kip, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Fitz-James O'Brien, Katherine Rickford, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, H. H. (Saki), Pliny the Younger, Helena Blavatsky, Villiers l'Isle de Adam, William F. Harvey, Fiona Macleod, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey Fernando
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DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition : Tales of Haunting Beauty and Profound Terror: A Gothic Classic Collection
Charles Dickens, Friedrich Schiller, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Guy Boothby, Jane Austen, Mayne Reid, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Hugh Benson, Horace Walpole, Frederick Marryat, Thomas Love Peacock, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Robert Browning, Walter Hubbell, Marie orelli, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, William Blake, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Keats, Richard Marsh, Clara Reeve, Charles Robert Maturin, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, W. W. Jacobs, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, E. T. Hoffmann, George W. Reynolds, William Thomas Beckford, Christina Rossetti, Tobias Smollett, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian
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Deep Waters : Twists of Fate and Dark Depths in Victorian England
W. W. Jacobs
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Night Watches. Complete Series : Supernatural Tales of Suspense and Macabre
W. W. Jacobs
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Captains All and Others
W. W. Jacobs
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50+ Masterpieces of Occult & Supernatural Fiction : At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Willows, The Monkey’s Paw, The Turn of the Screw and others
E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Ulric Daubeny, Charles Dickens, Lord Dunsany, W. F. Harvey, Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. W. Jacobs, Henry James, Franz Kafka, David H. Keller, Kuttner Henry, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, Vincent O’Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Ronan, Saki, Blackwood Algernon
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The Lady Of The Barge (Unabridged)
W. W. Jacobs
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The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories
O. Henry, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, H. Russell Wakefield, Mark Twain, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Clark Ashton Smith, Walter Scott, Saki, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent O’Sullivan, Onions Oliver, Margaret Oliphant, Edith Nesbit, John Metcalfe, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Machen, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Lee Vernon, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Rudyard Kipling, Franz Kafka, M. R. James, Henry James, W. W. Jacobs, Washington Irving, Hunt Violet, Robert E. Howard, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Hope Hodgson, Hichens Robert, W. F. Harvey, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Anatole France, Amelia B. Edwards, Lord Dunsany, Charles Dickens, Walter De La Mare, F. Marion Crawford, Aleister Crowley, Connell Richard, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Andreyev Leonid, Cynthia Asquith, Virginia Woolf, Lafcadio Hearn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, L. P. Hartley, Myla Jo Closser, Robert W. Chambers, Cather Willa, A. M. Burrage, John Buchan, Marjorie Bowen, Blackwood Algernon, Ambrose Bierce, White Edward Lucas, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert George Wells, Shiel M. P., Davis Rebecca Harding
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50 Masterpieces of Occult & Supernatural Fiction Vol. 1
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Montague Rhodes James, Mary Shelley, Edith Nesbit, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Cynthia Asquith, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Blackwood Algernon, A. M. Burrage, Robert W. Chambers, Irvin S. Cobb, F. Marion Crawford, Ulric Daubeny, Lord Dunsany, Amelia B. Edwards, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, W. F. Harvey, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hichens Robert, William Hope Hodgson, W. W. Jacobs, Franz Kafka, Arthur Machen, Vincent O’Sullivan, Guy Preston, Margaret Ronan, Saki, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (The Dunwich Horror, The Tell-Tale Heart, Green Tea, The Monkey's Paw, The Willows, The Shadows on the Wall, and many more!)
Robert E. Howard, Andreyev Leonid, M. R. James, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, John Metcalfe, Clark Ashton Smith, Onions Oliver, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Blackwood Algernon, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, F. Marion Crawford, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Lee Vernon, Walter De La Mare, Ambrose Bierce, Lafcadio Hearn, W. W. Jacobs, Robert W. Chambers, Franz Kafka, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki, Edgar Allan Poe, E. F. Benson
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Box Set - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volumes 1 to 7 (100+ authors & 200+ stories) (Halloween Stories)
W. F. Harvey, Edith Wharton, H. Russell Wakefield, Mark Twain, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Clark Ashton Smith, Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, Saki, Charlotte Riddell, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, John William Polidori, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent O’Sullivan, Onions Oliver, Edith Nesbit, John Metcalfe, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Machen, Lee Vernon, Richard Le Gallienne, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Rudyard Kipling, Franz Kafka, M. R. James, Henry James, W. W. Jacobs, Washington Irving, Robert E. Howard, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Hope Hodgson, Hichens Robert, Margaret Oliphant, O. Henry, Lafcadio Hearn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, L. P. Hartley, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Anatole France, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Amelia B. Edwards, Lord Dunsany, Charles Dickens, Walter De La Mare, Aleister Crowley, F. Marion Crawford, Wilkie Collins, Robert W. Chambers, Cather Willa, A. M. Burrage, John Buchan, Marjorie Bowen, Blackwood Algernon, Ambrose Bierce, E. F. Benson, Cynthia Asquith, Andreyev Leonid, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert George Wells, Shiel M. P., McNeile H. C.
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W. W. Jacobs: The Complete Supernatural Stories (20+ tales of horror and mystery: The Monkey’s Paw, The Well, Sam’s Ghost, The Toll-House, Jerry Bundler, The Brown Man’s Servant...) (Halloween Stories)
W. W. Jacobs
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