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Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
Chapters 1 - 30
Far from the Madding Crowd, volume I
by Thomas Hardy |
Size: 218 KB |
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Chapters 31 - 57
Far from the Madding Crowd, volume II
by Thomas Hardy |
Size: 222 KB |
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Return of the Native (1878)
Books one through three:
Return of the Native, volume I
by Thomas Hardy |
Size: 256 KB |
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Books four through six:
Return of the Native, volume II
by Thomas Hardy |
Size: 184 KB |
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy |
Size: 372 KB |
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
Books one through three:
Tess of the d'Urbervilles,
volume I
by Thomas Hardy |
Size: 180 KB |
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Books four through seven:
Tess of the d'Urbervilles,
volume II
by Thomas Hardy |
Size: 292 KB |
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In many of Jacobs' short stories, money is counted in pounds - shillings -
pence. For an explanation of antiquated British monetary units, read Paul
Lewis'
"What's a Guinea?"
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W.W. Jacobs was
a native of London's East End, where he had ample access to fishermen and
sailors and the tales that they told. He wrote short stories based on those
tales that he heard on the wharves and sold them to magazines. Among his
most famous stories was "The Monkey's Paw". Stephen King is just one of the
many authors that have acknowledged the influence of Mr. Jacobs on their own
work.
Many Cargoes (1894)
Many Cargoes was the first of Jacobs' works to be published in book
form. It is a collection of 21 short stories. As in many of Jacobs' stories,
much of the narration and dialogue is in a cockney dialect, so that words that
should begin with an h, will instead begin with only an apostrophe. So
that 'uman 'and should be understood to mean human hand and
'is is the genitive case of the third-person singular masculine
pronoun.
Many Cargoes
by W.W. Jacobs |
Size: 208 KB |
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Sea Urchins (1899)
Fifteen more short stories.
Sea Urchins
by W.W. Jacobs |
Size: 145 KB |
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