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    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

    By Jerome K. Jerome

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    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 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.

    The book consists of 14 independent articles arranged by themes:

    ON BEING IDLE.
    ON BEING IN LOVE.
    ON BEING IN THE BLUES.
    ON BEING HARD UP.
    ON VANITY AND VANITIES.
    ON GETTING ON IN THE WORLD.
    ON THE WEATHER.
    ON CATS AND DOGS.
    ON BEING SHY.
    ON BABIES.
    ON EATING AND DRINKING.
    ON FURNISHED APARTMENTS.
    ON DRESS AND DEPORTMENT.
    ON MEMORY.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSheba Blake Publishing
    Release dateNov 30, 2019
    ISBN9781387315468
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    Jerome K. Jerome

    Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in 1859 and was brought up in London. He started work as a railway clerk at fourteen, and later was employed as a schoolmaster, actor and journalist. He published two volumes of comic essays and in 1889 Three Men in a Boat. This was an instant success. His new-found wealth enabled him to become one of the founders of The Idler, a humorous magazine which published pieces by W W Jacobs, Bret Harte, Mark Twain and others. In 1900 he wrote a sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, which follows the adventures of the three protagonists on a walking tour through Germany. Jerome married in 1888 and had a daughter. He served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War and died in 1927.

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      What a delightful observer of humans. I wish I could remember whole sentences to recite to my friends and family. I have introduced Jerome K Jerome to many friends and family members and they are all delighted with his observations on human nature. They are as true today as when they were written so long ago.