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Jerome K Jerome
After his final trip up the river, Jerome sat down to write a serious book about the Thames, but in the process, his humor took over and gave birth to…
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Stephen Lambe
Jerome K Jerome’s most famous book - and the River that was its star- are dissected in this beautifully illustrated, full colour book.
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One of Jerome K. Jerome’s highly entertaining observers of life, the waiter Henry meets all the interesting coffee-shop sorts: the man whose baby is shown in a Dog Show ……
Why do the heroines in romances all have wide, low foreheads? Once introduced to this and a dozen other absurd and fascinating questions, we find ourselves dizzily plunged into a…
Joan is a smart and independent woman working as a journalist in London. She has grand plans for her future, dreaming of the day when she publishes her novel. However…
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born on 2nd May 1859 in Caldmore, Walsall, Staffordshire. Jerome K Jerome’s early life of poverty exacerbated by the death of his parents in his early…
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The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is made up of 14 individual essays: In the first chapter, "On being idle", the narrator discusses how being idle has been his…
‘What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn’t elevate a cow… All I can suggest is that when you get…
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a delightful collection of witty essays that will put a smile on your face. Jerome K Jerome's observations on life, love, and…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Jerome K Jerome’s early life of poverty exacerbated by the death of his parents in his early teens helped to cruelly mould the young Jerome. After early stints on the…
Three Men in a Boat
Skiff off, Nigel! Incompetence, embarrassment, and general disaster no it s not politics, it s a trip down the Thames! Three hapless fellows and a world weary dog decide they…
"All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall." - Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexander Dumas is a historical and…