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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome’s better works, and in spite of using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter. A second "Idle Thoughts" book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898.The essays had previously appeared in Home Chimes, the same magazine that later serialised Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.

Desactivar para: inglésJerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat, and several other novels.He was the fourth child of Marguerite Jones and Jerome Clapp (who later renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher who dabbled in architecture. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and one brother, Milton, who died at an early age. Jerome was registered as Jerome Clapp Jerome, like his father's amended name, and the Klapka appears to be a later variation (after the exiled Hungarian general György Klapka). The family fell into poverty owing to bad investments in the local mining industry, and debt collectors visited often, an experience that Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times (1926)

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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome’s better works, and in spite of using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter. A second "Idle Thoughts" book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898.The essays had previously appeared in Home Chimes, the same magazine that later serialised Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.

"Second thoughts are proverbially the best, and Mr. Jerome's are not only judicious, but infinitely diverting. The confessions are so ingenuous and circumstantial that one instinctively feels that here and there, the author is relating certain giddy episodes of his youth. The whole book is insidiously fertile in laughter." -London Bookseller "This collection is certainly not behind its predecessor in smartness or whimsical humor." -Daily News "What the average reader wants is something to take him out of himself for a brief season, and the faculty of effecting this is possessed by Mr. Jerome in a liberal (we might almost say an exalted) degree....There is a certain amount of philosophy, there is even a little theology, wrapped up in small parcels....The quantity in each parcel is strictly limited, but, like some patent pills, it is not necessary to be benefited, to take a big dose of the medicine." -Literary World "Altogether these 'Second Thoughts' may be recommended especially to the fair sex, who will find much to interest them not only in Mr. Jerome's satire on their weakness but in his genial moralizing about things worldly." -The Globe "The humor of Mr. Jerome's 'Second Thoughts' plays about all the time-honored topics of the social philosopher and moralist." -The Spectator "Mr. Jerome has shown that as a serious journalist he can write well and to the point." -The Academy and Literature "Will be peculiarly interesting to many, because it gives, what may be called without offense, the middle-aged view of life, the view of those who are neither quite old nor quite young, whose position in life is practically determined, but who have many miles of the road yet to travel....There is a great deal more of thought and depth in this volume of essays than a careless reader would suppose. At the same time, the careless reader will be pleased, for there is life and vigor and humor upon every page." -The Bookman Contents ON THE ART OF MAKING UP ONE'S MIND ON THE DISADVANTAGE OF NOT GETTING WHAT ONE WANTS ON THE EXCEPTIONAL MERIT ATTACHING TO THE THINGS WE MEANT TO DO ON THE PREPARATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF LOVE PHILTRES ON THE DELIGHTS AND BENEFITS OF SLAVERY ON THE CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF WOMEN ON THE MINDING OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS ON THE TIME WASTED IN LOOKING BEFORE ONE LEAPS ON THE NOBILITY OF OURSELVES ON THE MOTHERLINESS OF MAN ON THE INADVISABILITY OF FOLLOWING ADVICE ON THE PLAYING OF MARCHES AT THE FUNERALS OF MARIONETTES

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Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels. -wikipedia