Odd Craft

by W.W. Jacobs

Excerpt from Odd Craft

It ain't for the want of trying either with some of 'em, and I've known men do all sorts 0' things as soon as they was paid off, with a view to saving. I knew one man as used to keep all but a shilling or two in a belt next to 'is skin so that he couldn't get at it easy, but it was all no good. He was always running short in the most inconvenient places. I've seen 'im wriggle for five minutes right off, with a tramcar conductor standing over 'im and the other people in the tram reading their papers with one eye and watching him with the other.

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306 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1936

About the author

William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. Quite popular in his lifetime primarily for his amusing maritime tales of life along the London docks (many of them humorous as well as sardonic in tone). Today he is best known for a few short works of horror fiction. One being "The Monkey's Paw"(published 1902). It has in its own right become a well-known and widely anthologized classic.


~Literary Works

Many Cargoes (1896)
The Skipper's Wooing (1897)
Sea Urchins (1898) /aka More Cargoes (US) (1898)
A Master of Craft (1900)
The Monkey's Paw (1902)
The Toll House (1902)
Light Freights (1901)
At Sunwich Port (1902)
The Barge (1902)
Odd Craft (1903) : contains The Money Box, basis of Laurel and Hardy film Our Relations (1935)
Dialstone Lane (1902)
Captain's All (1905)
Short Cruises (1907)
Salthaven (1908)
Sailors' Knots (1909)
The Toll House (1909)
Ship's Company (1911)
Night Watches (1914)
The Castaways (1916)
Deep Waters (1919)
Sea Whispers (1926)

Reviews

[William]

Entertaining listening 🔰😀

Fourteen will written British romantic relationship adventure thrillers by W. W. Jacobs. I read these as individual novellas and found them entertaining fun listening 🎶 due to eye damage and issues as Alexa reads to me. I would recommend this novel or the individual novellas. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or listening 🎶to different types of novels 👍🏰😃🏡 2022

[Shane Rajiv]

Great insight into Wapping life written around 1900. Lots of stories in pubs, people cheating you out of your money, fortune tellers. Such fun to read especially if you know Wapping well and like history.

[Mike Jennings]

I love W.W. Jacobs's short stories.

Simple tales written so well you'd think you were having them read to you (by an old ship's hand with a voice like Christopher Lee, in a dark pub, by a fire, with drinks on the table and a storm blowing outside in the night).

[Richard]

More of the same: droll tales of seamen getting into trouble. I've read a number of these collections now and either they're getting better or I am warming up to them. This one includes recurring characters conman Bob Pretty and the hapless Ginger Dick. What I like is the author's ability to put his characters into ridiculous conflicts. No one changes much as a result, and the endings are generally a letdown, but like the ending of a "Three Stooges" short, that's not the point.

[Karen]

I like his novels more than short stories.