The complete online text of Deserted by W. W. Jacobs.

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. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...

Mombasa and Zanzibar DESERTION by Abdulrazak Gurnah Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 262, ISBN 0747577560 £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 The bitterness of the immigrant experience, the tumultuous coming of independence to a former British colony, forbidden love and miscegenation within a close-knit...

CHINCHILLA FARMBy Judith Freeman Norton. 308 pp. $19.95 Chinchillas mate for life. What accounts for such a "deep and unquestioning track of fidelity" is a mystery to us of a more flawed and selfish species. When Verna Flake's wayward husband, Leon, says he...

With the nation fighting two wars, the number of soldiers deserting has increased and the Army is stepping up prosecutions.Army statistics released this week show the number of desertions rose in the four years before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America prompted the Bush...

An emergency room physician has devised a scientific index to predict the likelihood that illegal immigrants will die while walking through the Arizona desert during extreme heat conditions.Dr. Samuel Keim concluded that the probability of death reaches 50 percent when temperatures climb to 104 degrees...