Dialstone Lane
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A quiet afternoon in Binchester changes when Edward Tredgold spots a young visitor from his estate agency office. Miss Drewitt has come for the key to her uncle Captain Bowers's cottage in Dialstone Lane. Tredgold offers to help with a supposedly awkward lock, but she quickly sees through his excuse. The cottage itself carries the captain's seafaring habits into domestic life, with a room fitted like a ship's cabin and a lookout mast in the garden.
W. W. Jacobs builds this comic novel around provincial manners, sea captains, voyages and treasure. In a later scene, Captain Brisket announces that he has secured the Fair Emily for Mr. Chalk. Mrs. Chalk's misunderstanding of the name turns the news into a tangle of anxious hints and improvised explanations. The appeal lies in these conversations: confident speakers make their own difficulties worse, while small social encounters acquire the tension of an adventure.
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- Author
- W. W. Jacobs
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 191
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
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