Jerome K Jerome: 299 books

Le roman narre les aventures de George, Harris, Jérôme et le chien Montmorency, entreprenant un voyage sur la Tamise. Le livre est parsemé d'anecdotes comiques, mais aussi de réflexions philosophiques sur l'existence, les illusions que nous entretenons volontiers sur le monde et sur nous-mêmes,...

TO THE GENTLE READER; also TO THE GENTLE CRITIC. Once upon a time, I wrote a little story of a woman who was crushed to death by a python. A day or two after its publication, a friend stopped me in the street. “Charming little story of yours,” he said,” that about the woman and the snake; but it’s...

"Deny the contest between male and female, and you deprive life of half its poetry,"

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...