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Sailor's Knots - cover

Sailor's Knots

W.W. Jacobs

Maison d'édition: Dead Dodo Presents W.W. Jacobs

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Synopsis

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from W.W. Jacobs, ‘Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection)’.

Included in this volume are Jacobs's classic sea stories "Deserted," "Homeward Bound," "Self-Help," "Sentence Deferred," "'Matrimonial Openings, '" "Odd Man Out," "'The Toll-House, '" "Peter's Pence," "The Head of the Family," "Prize Money" "Double Dealing," and "Keeping Up Appearances."

John Drinkwater described Jacobs' fiction as being "in the Dickens tradition"
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