Jerome K Jerome - Böcker

(Excerpt): "e;Do not blame me, Ladies, the fault lies with you. Every right-thinking man is an universal lover; how could it be otherwise? You are so diverse, yet each so charming of your kind; and a man's heart is large. You have no idea, fai...

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(Excerpt): "e;As for the other class of clocks-the common or always-wrong clocks-they are harmless enough. You wind them up at the proper intervals, and once or twice a week you put them right and "e;regulate"e; them, as you call it......

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(Excerpt): "e;Kindness,"e; argued little Mrs. Pennycoop, "e;costs nothing."e; "e;And, speaking generally, my dear, is valued precisely at cost price,"e; retorted Mr. Pennycoop, who, as an auctioneer of twenty years' experie...

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(Excerpt): "e;Once upon a time, I wrote a little story of a woman who was crushed to death by a python. A day or two after its publication, a friend stopped me in the street. "e;Charming little story of yours,"e; he said, "e;that a...

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Synopsis: This isn't a play or novel itself, but rather a series of short satirical essays on the conventions and cliches of theater. There are essays, for example, on the stage hero, the stage heroine, the stage villain, the stage "e;adventur...

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'On the Stage - and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-be Actor' was Jerome K. Jerome's first published book. It is a lightly fictionalised memoir, rather in the style of 'Three Men in a Boat', with its hapless narrator detailing his inglorious adve...

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Paul Kelver is a 1902 autobiographical novel by Jerome K. Jerome (best known for Three Men in a Boat). From the novel, a passage which seems to refer to Jerome's coming of age: "e;Returning home on this particular day of days, I paused upon th...

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(Excerpt): "e;Once upon a time in Zandam, which is by the Zuider Zee, there lived a wicked man named Nicholas Snyders. He was mean and hard and cruel, and loved but one thing in the world, and that was gold. And even that not for its own sake....

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(Excerpt): "e;The Doctor never did believe this story, but claims for it that, to a great extent, it has altered his whole outlook on life. "e;Of course, what actually happened-what took place under my own nose,"e; continued the Doctor...

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This engaging collection of tales from the author of "e;Three Men in a Boat"e; presents the amusing and sometimes bittersweet adventures of a crew of Fleet Street journalists and their cronies, beginning with the arrival of young Tommy, a ...

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Another classic short story by Jerome K. Jerome, The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl is a mirthful then sobering story during the Franco-Prussian War of a non-traditional embodiment of "e;love."e; Poetic in both scope and style. (Goodreads)

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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Jerome K. Jeromewhich areThree M...

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) illustrated Jerome K. Jerome - The journey upstream of some impressionable young men into a mysterious, challenging interior. An inevitable reckoning at the source. Finally, the terrible return to re...

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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Jerome K. Jerome - Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the authors second published book and it helped establish him as a leading Englis...

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Eine Bootstour auf der Themse hat ihre Tucken, aber es ist doch nur eine Kaffeefahrt im Vergleich zu dem, was die beiden Gentlemen in diesem Buch auf sich nehmen: Mit Schiff und Zug und Pferdewagen fahren sie von London aus uber den Kanal und quer...

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Jerome duce mai departe tradi?ia umorului anglo-saxon, pornind de la Chaucer ?i continuând cu Swift, Dickens, Mark Twain. Oricât de ÿngro?at sau oricât de fin, umorul lui Jerome nu are nici o doz? de r?utate ÿn el ? este un umor benign, avân...

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Când J., naratorul, George ?i Harris, trei or??eni din clasa de mijloc, pleac? ÿmpreun? cu câinele Montmorency ÿntr-o c?l?torie de pl?cere pe Tamisa, cu greu ÿ?i pot imagina c? aceasta va c?p?ta propor?iile unei expedi?ii aventuroase, pline d...

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Three Men in a Boat, written in 1889, has been selected as "e;the fifty most humorous literary works in history"e;, which has lasted for more than 100 years.Three ordinary and self-satisfied young men, with a dog that bullied the weak and ...

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Un escritor y sus tres hijos llegan a la campiña para supervisar la remodelación de su nueva casa. Metido en harina, el novelista hará uso de toda su inteligencia para enfrentarse a la peculiar manera de encarar la vida rural que tienen sus ret...

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George, Harry y Jerome protagonistas también de Tres hombres en una barca necesitados de un profundo cambio en sus vidas, emprenden un nuevo periplo: esta vez viajan a Alemania para desentrañar la idiosincrasia germana. Dados sus temples tan dis...

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Es un relato humorÿstico publicado en 1889, acerca de unas vacaciones de tres amigos por el Támesis, entre Kingston y Oxford. En origen pretendÿa ser una seria guÿa de viaje sobre la historia local a lo largo de la ruta, pero el carácter dive...

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Simpática novela de humor inglés, publicada en 1889 con rotundo éxito. Relata con la frescura de un hombre de mundo reflexiones y pensamientos sobre lo cotidiano con la gracia que le valió el considerarle el precursor de la novela de humor bri...

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