The Lady of the Barge

The Lady of the Barge, also published as The Lady of the Barge and Other Stories, is an anthology of short stories by W. W. Jacobs, first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company. The first edition includes illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and James Frank Sullivan, with a cover created by Amy Richards. W. W. Jacobs was a prolific writer of short stories. His topics were typically humorous and nautical in nature, but they weren’t exclusively so. This anthology includes some of his most famous short stories, including 'The Monkey’s Paw,' a story of the supernatural in which a monkey’s hand grants three wishes to its owner, but at huge cost.The Lady of the Barge, also published as The Lady of the Barge and Other Stories, is an anthology of short stories by W. W. Jacobs, first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company. The first edition includes illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and James Frank Sullivan, with a cover created by Amy Richards. W. W. Jacobs was a prolific writer of short stories. His topics were typically humorous and nautical in nature, but they weren’t exclusively so. This anthology includes some of his most famous short stories, including 'The Monkey’s Paw,' a story of the supernatural in which a monkey’s hand grants three wishes to its owner, but at huge cost.The Lady of the Barge, also published as The Lady of the Barge and Other Stories, is an anthology of short stories by W. W. Jacobs, first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company. The first edition includes illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and James Frank Sullivan, with a cover created by Amy Richards. W. W. Jacobs was a prolific writer of short stories. His topics were typically humorous and nautical in nature, but they weren’t exclusively so.