Synopsis
William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. He is now best remembered for his macabre tales, including "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Toll House," as well as his nautical-themed fiction.
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"He keeps his characters at cross purposes with one another until it seems impossible that he should ever be able to straighten out their affairs. But he is as ingenious as he is funny, and the climax to his farce is in truth nothing less than masterly--it is so unexpected, so natural, and so uproariously funny." -The New York Tribune
Humor is the single effect W. W. Jacobs utilized in his dockside stories, based on the lives of working-class people before socialism and war changed the British social structure. He used exaggeration and overstatement to create laughter-provoking farce. However, his stories were not satire by definition as he made no attempt to reform society or his characters' ridiculous and entertaining behavior.
Jacobs uses a third-person observer as narrator. For a mug of beer, the Nightwatchman, a retired seaman, or the Old Timer at the Cauliflower Inn will entertain travelers with their tales. Dialogue includes just enough Cockney dialect to add authentic speech patterns without confusing the reader. Nearly half of Jacobs's stories feature the escapades of sailors on schooners going up or down the Thames estuary or in places like Wapping. The rest feature villagers in towns like Claybury. He was especially adept at describing funny looking or eccentric characters. Female characters are either pretty, deceitful flirts or bossy old women
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