Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Ein Meister seines Fachs
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love dry humour, Victorian and Edwardian life, and gentle stories about scheming people. It also suits anyone who enjoys short, easy chapters and comic tales of sailors, love and money.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
A Master of Craft is a comic novel by W. W. Jacobs, published in 1900. Jacobs wrote it at the height of his fame as the humorist of the London riverside, where small coasting ships tie up beside the wharves and the talk in the cabin matters more than the weather outside.
The word craft in the title does double duty. It means a vessel, and it means cunning. The book gives you a world of skippers, mates and hands, where a quick tongue and a straight face can do more than seamanship. In this summary you will meet that world, learn how Jacobs builds his jokes, and see what kind of reading pleasure he offers. We begin with the setting he knew best.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Jacobs writes from the riverside he knewFree
- 2Cunning is the real skill at sea
- 3Love and money tangle the plot
- 4A dry voice does the work
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Jacobs writes from the riverside he knew
William Wymark Jacobs grew up in London, and his boyhood was spent near the docks, where his father worked on a wharf. Later he took a clerk's post in the Post Office Savings Bank. He wrote his tales in the evenings, and his sailors come from close observation, not from adventure books.
The ships in his stories are not great square-riggers crossing oceans. They are small, hard-worked vessels that carry cargo along the coast and up the Thames. Their crews are few, and everyone knows everyone else. That closeness is the engine of his comedy, because a small deck leaves no place to hide a lie.
In A Master of Craft, as in his other sea books, the master of a vessel is a man with authority and with weak spots. Jacobs enjoys the gap between the two. A captain may command his crew, but he cannot always command his own wishes, his own pride, or the people waiting for him on shore. That gap is where the book finds its fun.
If you know his collections such as Many Cargoes and Light Freights, you will recognise the ground at once. The wharf, the cabin, the public house and the front parlour are his usual stages.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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Questions about Ein Meister seines Fachs
What is A Master of Craft about?
It is a comic novel by W. W. Jacobs about sea life on small trading vessels, where skippers and crews use cunning, bluff and quick talk to manage their affairs, including matters of love and money.
Who wrote A Master of Craft and when?
W. W. Jacobs wrote it, and it was published in 1900. He was an English humorist who drew on the London riverside and its working sailors for most of his stories.
What does the title A Master of Craft mean?
Craft has two senses here. It means a ship or boat, and it means skill and cunning. A master of craft is both a ship's captain and someone clever at getting his way.
Is A Master of Craft hard to read?
No. The prose is plain, the chapters move quickly, and most of the humour comes through dialogue. The sense is always clear.
Is A Master of Craft worth reading?
It is worth reading if you like dry, good-natured humour and Victorian working life. It is a light and quick entertainment, and it shows Jacobs at his comic best.