A Spirit of Avarice Summary
W. W. Jacobs

A SPIRIT OF AVARICE Mr. John Blows stood listening to the foreman with an air of lofty disdain.  He was a free-born Englishman, and yet he had been summarily paid off at eleven o’clock in ... Read more

W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. H... Read more