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'I fell out of bed laughing at Three Men in a Boat' Guardian What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best fr

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Published in 1900, this sequel of sorts to the classic Three Men in a Boat features the same three charactersJ. (the narrator and stand-in for the author), and his friends George and Harrisembarking on a "e;bummel"e;"e;a journey, long ...

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From the lively imagination of British humorist Jerome K. Jerome comes this collection of three short stories and two sketches that showcase the range of his story-telling skills. The title story is a sweet, old-fashioned and uplifting love story;...

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Joan Allway arrives in London, hoping to become a journalist. She is an immediate success. Love follows, but circumstances induce Joan to leave for the trenches of World War I in France. An intriguing story, Jeromes novel attempts to examine the q...

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A follow-up to his enormously popular Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, this collection of essays from Jerome continues his ruminations on a wide range of subjects, including the art of making up ones mind, the disadvantage of not getting what one ...

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Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was a British humorist and travel writer. As an actor, journalist, and short story writer, he had little luck for much of his early career. He is best known for the charming and often hilarious Three Men in a Boat ...

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Prologue: In Which the Author Seeks to Cast the Responsibility of this Story Upon Another. Kicking off with a laugh, British humorist Jerome K. Jeromes comedic and touching novel Paul Kelver is considered to be highly autobiographical. A must-read...

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Tommy and Co. is the nickname of the staff of a Fleet Street newspaper called Good Humour. Jeromes witty tale relates the highly unceremonious way in which the papers various staff members drifted under the employment of Mr. Peter Hope, its editor...

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The author of Three Men in a Boat, writes himself in as a character in this marvelous novel. The plot unfolds as he and three of his bachelor friends (he is married) set out to write a novel. As they embark on this venture and their eccentricities...

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They and I is the story of a city familys move to the countrythe father anticipating a bucolic existence. However, their new neighbors are not quite quaint enough for him, and realities like milking cows in the morning interfere with his concept o...

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From British humorist and author of Three Men on a Boat comes this collection of ghost storiestold around the fire on Christmas Eve, because, according to Jerome, almost all English ghost stories begin on Christmas Eve. He introduces them tongue-i...

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From British humorist Jerome K. Jerome comes this novel about a young author in nineteenth-century London who confronts her guardian angel. This story is a perfect example of comic literature during the transition from Victorian England to Edwardi...

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Undertaken at the suggestion of a friend, here is Jeromes attempt to write a sensible book. The pilgrimage of the title is Jeromes journey to Germany to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau. Part diary, part travelogue, and part social comm...

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Meet Henry, who works as a waiter. Henry becomes acquainted with a variety of eccentric persons who visit the coffee shop he works inincluding a man whose baby is shown in a dog show and a customer who is eaten by a cannibal. Henrys gift for obser...

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In the title storyadapted by the author into a successful playa mysterious, Christ-like stranger visits a run-down boarding home and transforms the lives of its residents. Other selections in this 1904 collection are The Philosophers Joke, The Sou...

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In his dedication page to Stage-Land (published in 1889), Jerome K. Jerome writes: To that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual of whom we hear so much but see so little, the earnest student of the drama, this (comparatively) t...

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This collection of short stories and a novella captures much of the whimsy for which Jerome is known. Malvina of Brittany follows the exploits of a mischievous fairy who was once the favored attendant of Queen Harbundia of Brittany in 2000 B.C. Ba...

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The essays in Idle Thoughts (1886)including On Being Idle, On Being in Love, On Being Hard Up, On Cats and Dogs, On Babies, and moreestablished Jerome as a major humorist.

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She had not meant to stay for the service. The door had stood invitingly open, and a glimpse of the interior had suggested to her the idea that it would make good copy. "Old London Churches: Their Social and Historical Associations." It ...

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My friend B. called on me this morning and asked me if I would go to a theatre with him on Monday next. "Oh, yes! certainly, old man," I replied. "Have you got an order, then?" He said: "No; they don't give orders. We shal...

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Charmed. Very hot weather we've been having of late-I mean cold. Let me see, I did not quite catch your name just now. Thank you so much. Yes, it is a bit close. And a silence falls, neither of us being able to think what next to say. What has happen

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Now, this is a subject on which I flatter myself I really am au fait. The gentleman who, when I was young, bathed me at wisdom's font for nine guineas a term-no extras-used to say he never knew a boy who could do less work in more time; and I reme...

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The Doctor never did believe this story, but claims for it that, to a great extent, it has altered his whole outlook on life. "Of course, what actually happened-what took place under my own nose," continued the Doctor, "I do not dis...

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When, on returning home one evening, after a pipe party at my friend Jephson's, I informed my wife that I was going to write a novel, she expressed herself as pleased with the idea. She said she had often wondered I had never thought of doing so b...

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The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. Reginald Blake was as typical a specimen of the well-bred cad as one coul...

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I had a vexing dream one night, not long ago: it was about a fortnight after Christmas. I dreamt I flew out of the window in my nightshirt. I went up and up. I was glad that I was going up. "They have been noticing me," I thought to myse...

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Now, which would you advise, dear? You see, with the red I shan't be able to wear my magenta hat. "Well then, why not have the grey?" "Yes-yes, I think the grey will be MORE useful." "It's a good material." "Yes,...

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It is not a large house, I said. "We don't want a large house. Two spare bedrooms, and the little three-cornered place you see marked there on the plan, next to the bathroom, and which will just do for a bachelor, will be all we shall require...

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THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were - bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course. We were all feeling seedy, and we wer

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Come in! said Peter Hope. Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with hair of the kind referred to by sympathetic barbers as "getting a little thin on the t...

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