Jerome Jerome: 1081 books

The novel All Roads Lead to Cavalry offers an irreverent take on the social forces at play in England in the period leading up to and just following the outbreak of World War I. If you're interested in history but often find yourself bored by historical fiction, this funny, one-of-a-kind novel is for you.

(Excerpt): "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 before. "

(Excerpt): "Kindness," argued little Mrs. Pennycoop, "costs nothing." "And, speaking generally, my dear, is valued precisely at cost price," retorted Mr. Pennycoop, who, as an auctioneer of twenty years' experience, had enjoyed much opportunity of testing the attitude...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of ‘Stage Land’. Dedicated to ‘that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, “the earnest student of drama” FIND AND ENJOY!

(Excerpt): "“I do mean it,” declared Mrs. Korner, “I like a man to be a man.” “But you would not like Christopher—I mean Mr. Korner—to be that sort of man,” suggested her bosom friend.”"

A Play in four acts. (Excerpt): "Time:—Afternoon. (Mrs. Elizabeth Spender sits near the fire, reading a book. She is a tall, thin woman, with passionate eyes, set in an oval face of olive complexion; the features are regular and severe; her massive dark hair is almost primly arranged. She wears...

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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 before. 

Who would be a chaperone? He would fling himself on his knees before her, never noticing the dog I left them at it He went with her and made himself ridiculous at the dressmaker's Why should we seek to explain away all the beautiful things of life? Are we so sure that art does elevate? The artist...

Per decenni le differenze di temperamento sono state attribuite a fattori esclusivamente ambientali. Quando le teorie di Freud imperavano, le differenze nella risposta emotiva e comportamentale delle persone venivano tutte legate a esperienze vissute, alla condizione familiare, a traumi subiti nel...

The dawn of the Space Age coincided with the birth of a secret Soviet-American alliance of necessity known as the Archangel Project. Taking place from 1951-1970, the history of the Archangel Project has been pieced together from classified files and the recollections of a few who participated in the...

Les trois compères de « Trois hommes dans un bateau » partent faire une balade en Allemagne, à pied, en vélo ou en attelage. Au cours de cette longue promenade, il leur arrive de multiples aventures. Celles-ci et les souvenirs plus anciens qu’elles suscitent, forment l’essentiel du livre, de ce fait impossible à résumer.