Books with author Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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Jerome K Jerome is one of England's best-loved humorists, and in his second book, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, he reveals a prodigious talent for quiet, comical philosophizing. Fourteen topics are covered, leaving the reader with new perspectives on such topics as the weather, lack of cash, the agonies of shyness, and being in love, which according to Jerome 'is like catching the measles, "we all have to go through it... but never need be afraid of catching it a second time". The world will never look the same again!

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog): The story begins by introducing George, Harris, Jerome and Montmorency, a fox terrier. The men are spending an evening in J.'s room, smoking and discussing illnesses they fancy they suffer from. They conclude they are all suffering from 'overwork' and need a holiday. A stay in the country and a sea trip are both considered, then rejected after J. describes the bad experiences had by his brother-in-law and a friend on sea trips. The three decide on a boating holiday up the River Thames, from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford, during which they will camp, notwithstanding Jerome's anecdotes about previous experiences with tents and camping stoves.

Do you enjoy classic literature in easy-to-carry paperback? Then you'll love Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome! Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is a humorous story first published in 1889. Perhaps you read Three Men in a Boat in school as a youth or maybe this is your first time reading Jerome K. Jerome's masterpiece or maybe you're a teacher buying the book for your children's literature class. Either way, enjoy Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat book today!

This book is an illustrated version of the original Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome. “One or two friends to whom I showed these papers in MS. having observed that they were not half bad, and some of my relations having promised to buy the book if it ever came out, I feel I have no right to longer delay its issue. But for this, as one may say, public demand, I perhaps should not have ventured to offer these mere "idle thoughts" of mine as mental food for the English-speaking peoples of the earth. What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this up for half an hour. It will be a change.”

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog...), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers - the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.