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Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat

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The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events that really happened. All that has been done is to colour them; and, for this, no extra charge has been made. George and Harris and Montmorency are not poetic ideals, but things of flesh and blood—especially George, who weighs about twelve stone. Other works may excel this in dept of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable veracity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it. This, more than all its other charms, will, it is felt, make the volume precious in the eye of the earnest reader; and will lend additional weight to the lesson that the story teaches. [mehr]

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Jerome K. Jerome Paul Kelver Of 1

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Paul, Arrived In A Strange Land, Learns Many Things, And Goes To Meet The Man In Grey. Fate Intended Me [mehr]

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Jerome K. Jerome Paul Kelver Of 2

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"Room To Let For A Single Gentleman." Sometimes In An Idle Hour, Impelled By Foolishness, I Will Knock At The Door. It Is Opened After A Longer Or Shorter Interval By The "Slavey"--In The Morning, Slatternly, Her Arms Concealed Beneath Her Apron; In The Afternoon, Smart In Dirty Cap And Apron. How Well I Know Her! Unchanged, Not Grown An Inch--Her Round Bewildered Eyes, Her Open Mouth, Her Touzled Hair, Her Scored Red Hands. [mehr]

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Jerome K. Jerome Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow (Fiscle Part-9)

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Now, This Is A Subject On Which I Flatter Myself I Really Am _Au Fait_. The Gentleman Who, When I Was Young, Bathed Me At Wisdom's Font For Nine Guineas A Term--No Extras--Used To Say He Never Knew A Boy Who Could Do Less Work In More Time; And I Remember My Poor Grandmother Once Incidentally Observing, In The Course Of An Instruction Upon The Use Of The Prayer-Book, That It Was Highly Improbable That I Should Ever Do Much That I Ought Not To Do, But That She Felt Convinced Beyond A Doubt That I Should Leave Undone Pretty Well Everything That I Ought To Do. [mehr]

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Jerome K. Jerome Paul Kelver

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Fate Intended Me For A Singularly Fortunate Man. Properly, I Ought To Have Been Born In June, Which Being, As Is Well Known, The Luckiest Month In All The Year For Such Events, Should, By Thoughtful Parents, Be More Generally Selected. How It Was I Came To Be Born In May, Which Is, On The Other Hand, Of All The Twelve The Most Unlucky, As I Have Proved, I Leave To Those More Conversant With The Subject To Explain. An Early Nurse, The First Human Being Of Whom I Have Any Distinct Recollection, Unhesitatingly Attributed The Unfortunate Fact To My Natural Impatience; Which Quality She At The Same Time Predicted Would Lead Me Into Even Greater Trouble, A Prophecy Impressed By Future Events With The Stamp Of Prescience. It Was From This Same Bony Lady That I Likewise Learned The Manner Of My Coming. It Seems That I Arrived, Quite Unexpectedly, Two Hours After News Had Reached The House Of The Ruin Of My Father's Mines Through Inundation; Misfortunes, As It Was Expounded To Me, Never Coming Singly In This World To Any One. That All Things Might Be Of A Piece, My Poor Mother, Attempting To Reach The Bell, Fell Against And Broke The Cheval-Glass, Thus Further Saddening Herself With The Conviction--For No Amount Of Reasoning Ever Succeeded In Purging Her Welsh Blood Of Its Natural Superstition--That Whatever Might Be The Result Of Future Battles With My Evil Star, The First Seven Years Of Tiny Existence Had Been, By Her Act, Doomed To Disaster. [mehr]

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Jerome K. Jerome All Roads Lead To Calvary (Fiscle Part-X)

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She Had Not Meant To Stay For The Service. The Door Had Stood Invitingly Open, And A Glimpse Of The Interior Had Suggested to Her The Idea That It Would Make Good Copy. "Old London Churches: Their Social And Historical Associations." It Would Be Easy To Collect Anecdotes Of The Famous People Who Had Attended them. She Might Fix Up A Series For One Of The Religious Papers. It Promised quite Exceptional Material, This Particular Specimen, Rich In tombs And Monuments. There Was Character About It, A Scent Of Bygone Days. She Pictured the Vanished Congregations In their Powdered wigs And Stiff Brocades. How Picturesque Must Have Been The Marriages That Had Taken Place There, Say In the Reign Of Queen Anne Or Of The Early Georges. The Church Would Have Been Ancient Even Then. With Its Air Of Faded grandeur, Its Sculptured Recesses And Dark Niches, The Tattered banners Hanging from Its Roof, It Must Have Made An Admirable Background. Perhaps An Historical Novel In The Thackeray Vein? She Could See Her Heroine Walking up The Aisle On The Arm Of Her Proud Old Soldier Father. Later On, When Her Journalistic Position Was More Established, She Might Think Of It. It Was Still Quite Early. There Would Be Nearly Half An Hour Before The First Worshippers Would Be Likely To Arrive: Just Time Enough To Jot Down A Few Notes. If She Did Ever Take To Literature It Would Be The Realistic School, She Felt, That Would Appeal To Her. The Rest, Too, Would Be Pleasant After Her Long Walk From Westminster. She Would Find A Secluded seat In one Of The High, Stiff Pews, And Let The Atmosphere Of The Place Sink Into Her. [mehr]

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JEROME K. JEROME PAUL KELVER

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Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known [mehr]

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Jerome K. Jerome Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

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Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels. Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He was the fourth child of Marguerite Jones and Jerome Clapp (who later renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher who dabbled in architecture. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and one brother, Milton, who died at an early age. Jerome was registered, like his father's amended name, as Jerome Clapp Jerome, and the Klapka appears to be a later variation (after the exiled Hungarian general György Klapka). Owing to bad investments in the local mining industry, the family fell into poverty and debt collectors visited often, an experience Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times (1926).[1] The young Jerome attended St Marylebone Grammar School. He wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of his father when the younger Jerome was age 13 and of his mother when he was age 15 forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. He was employed at the London and North Western Railway, initially collecting coal that fell along the railway, and remained there for four years. [mehr]

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Jerome K. Jerome Paul Kelver

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Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known [mehr]

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Jerome K. Jerome All Roads Lead To Calvary (Fiscle Part-X)

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Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known [mehr]

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