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Sailors' Yarns
Written by W. W. Jacobs, Joseph Conrad and Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
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A splendid collection of seafarers' tales.
"Choice Spirits", by W.W. Jacobs
"A Descent into the Maelström", by Edgar Allan Poe
"Pickled Herring", by W.W. Jacobs
"The Secret Sharer", by Joseph Conrad
"Mixed Relations", by W.W. Jacobs
"The Upper Berth", by F. Marion Crawford
"The Finest Story in the World", by Rudyard Kipling
"The Test", by W.W. Jacobs
"The Gold Bug", by Edgar Allan Poe
"A Shipwreck Collection", by Ambrose Bierce
"Not on the Passenger List", by Barry Pain
"The Treasure Ship", by Saki
"The Cabin Passenger", by W.W. Jacobs
"MS Found in a Bottle", by Edgar Allan Poe
"Choice Spirits", by W.W. Jacobs
"A Descent into the Maelström", by Edgar Allan Poe
"Pickled Herring", by W.W. Jacobs
"The Secret Sharer", by Joseph Conrad
"Mixed Relations", by W.W. Jacobs
"The Upper Berth", by F. Marion Crawford
"The Finest Story in the World", by Rudyard Kipling
"The Test", by W.W. Jacobs
"The Gold Bug", by Edgar Allan Poe
"A Shipwreck Collection", by Ambrose Bierce
"Not on the Passenger List", by Barry Pain
"The Treasure Ship", by Saki
"The Cabin Passenger", by W.W. Jacobs
"MS Found in a Bottle", by Edgar Allan Poe
Author
W. W. Jacobs
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.
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