Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Softcover

Jerome, Jerome Klapka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 153969089X ISBN 13: 9781539690894

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, 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.

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About the Author:

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, and was brought up in poverty in London. Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.

Review:

"Published in 1886, still relevant, still devilishly funny." --Tom Hodgkinson

"A little comic masterpiece." --The Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 153969089X
• ISBN 13: 9781539690894
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130