Jerome K Jerome: 299 books

The first bicycle was invented at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1890s that the craze really took off. This brought with it the fears, scaremongering, worries and uncertainties that inevitably accompany any new fashion. Women (often unchaperoned and oddly dressed)...

Tea-table Talk is an imaginary conversation between the writer and a number of un-named characters at the afternoon tea table. The Woman of the World, the Old Maid, the Girton Girl, the Philosopher and the Minor Poet wax lyrical on subjects like marriage, art, society and politics. (Goodreads)

In the title story—adapted by the author into a successful play—a mysterious, Christ-like stranger visits a run-down boarding home and transforms the lives of its residents. Other selections in this 1904 collection are “The Philosopher’s Joke,” “The Soul of Nicholas Snyders,” “Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies,” “The Cost of Kindness,” and “The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl.”

Passing of the Third Floor Back

In an attempt to escape the stresses of city life three friends, J, Harris and George, plus their faithful canine companion Montmorency, decide to take a boating jaunt between Kingston and Oxford. However a trip intended to relax and rejuvenate quickly becomes a journey of unquenchable comedy,...

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. (Google)

Il romanzo nacque originariamente come opera contenente notizie storico-letterarie, utili per una guida turistica, e avrebbe dovuto intitolarsi La storia del Tamigi. L'editore fece tagliare le divagazioni storico culturali, creando i presupposti per l'enorme successo del libro, snellito rispetto al...

Tre uomini in barca (per tacer del cane è una storia leggera e divertente che racconta le peripezie di tre amici londinesi, i quali, per riprendersi da malattie più immaginarie che reali, decidono di concedersi una vacanza e di risalire in barca il Tamigi da Londra fino a Oxford. I tre sono accompagnati...

A play in three acts. (Excerpt): "SCENE: Kitchen at Woodbarrow Farm. An ideal old farmhouse kitchen. From the smoke-blackened ceiling beams hang huge sides of bacon, strings of onions, and herbs, and poultry. Over the great fireplace are the guns, and in profusion everywhere are the homely furnishings...

First published 1916. Short story collection from the celebrated author and humourist best known for "Three Men in a Boat."

Synopsis: This isn't a play or novel itself, but rather a series of short satirical essays on the conventions and cliches of theater. There are essays, for example, on the stage hero, the stage heroine, the stage villain, the stage "adventuress" (read "tramp"), the stage lawyer, etc.

(Excerpt): "The most extraordinary dream I ever had was one in which I fancied that, as I was going into a theater, the cloak-room attendant stopped me in the lobby and insisted on my leaving my legs behind me. I was not surprised; indeed, my acquaintanceship with theater harpies would prevent...

(Excerpt): "As for the other class of clocks—the common or always-wrong clocks—they are harmless enough. You wind them up at the proper intervals, and once or twice a week you put them right and "regulate" them, as you call it... But you do all this, not from any selfish motives,...