The Monkey's Paw and Other Stories

by W. W. Jacobs

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Mainly unread. Monkey's Paw is fine enough but the dialect isn't rewarded enough by plot otherwise.

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The Monkey's Paw and Other Stories
Original publication date
1959
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This work Selected Short Stories by W. W. Jacobs was selected by Denys Kilham Roberts and first published by Penguin Books first in 1959.

1) It was later republished with the title The Monkey's Paw and Other... (show all) Stories. The contents of this selection are different from other collections with the same name. Please don't combine with other titles of the same name (unless the contents are known to be identical) or with the short story.

2) Note also that the contents of this work differ from the work with the same name introduced byHugh Greene and published in the "Bow Street Library" series by The Bodley Head in 1975. Please don't combine the two works.

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Horror
DDC/MDS
823.8Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1837-1899
LCC
PR4821 .J2Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature19th century , 1770/1800-1890/1900

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