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Excerpt from Idle Ideas in 1905Oh, what was it I inquired. It seemed to me I must have missed it.Well, I can't exactly 'member it, She explained, not just at the moment. But it was so funny. I dreamed it, you know.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techn...

Excerpt from Told After Supper I begin this way, because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin, and I have been brought up in a proper, orthodox, re. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pr...

Excerpt from Tea Table Talk Hey are very pretty, some of them, said the Woman of the World, not the sort of letters I should have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whils...

Excerpt from The Master of Mrs. Chilvers About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the...

Excerpt from Woodbarrow Farm: Play in Three Acts 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 of a prosperous farmhouse kitchen. A huge fire burns r. in old-fashioned fireplace, with settle on each side. Door l.c. at back ...

Excerpt from Second Thoughts of an Idle FellowWell, don't for a moment. Just let me have another look at the red. You see, dear, it has just occurred to me - that chinchilla would look so well on the red.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to d...

Excerpt from Three Men on Wheels If you don't mind, Old man, be interrupted, I'd really rather you didn't. She'll talk it over with my wife, and - well, I should not be happy, taking credit that I do not deserve. But you do deserve it, I insisted, it was your suggestion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an impor...

Excerpt from They and I "It is not a large house, " I said. "We don't want a large house. Two spare bedrooms, and the little three-cornered place you see marked there on the plan, next to the bathroom, and which will just do for a bachelor, will be all we shall require - at all events, for the present. Later on, if I ever get rich, we can throw out a wing. The kitchen I shall have to break to your mother gently. Whatever the original architec...

Excerpt from On the Stage and OffIn penning tlze following pages 1 lzave endeavored to be trnt/zfnl. I n looking back upon t/ze scenes tlzrong/c wlziclz 1 passen', 1 lzave songbt to penetrate t/ze veil of glamour T inze trails be/n'na' bin: as be flies, and to see t/zings ex actly as t/zey were - Jo see t/ze ronglz road as well as t/ze smiling landscape, t/ze briers ana' brambles as well as t/ze green grass and t/ze waving trees.About the Publ...

An autobiographical novel first published in 1902 by the author best-known for 'Three Men in a Boat'.

This comic novel describes the boating expedition on the Thames of three friends and their dog, Montmerency. The difficulties and vicissitudes of these innocents abroad are magnified to epic proportions, and give the book an air of fresh innocence.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Three Men in a Boat begins: THERE were four of us -- George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were -- bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course. We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he fe...

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Skiff off, Nigel! Incompetence, embarrassment, and general disaster no it s not politics, it s a trip down the Thames! Three hapless fellows and a world weary dog decide they need a holiday from their exhausting hypochondria. Hilarious mayhem ensues.

Uno degli uomini migliori che io abbia mai conosciuto s'è rovinato la vita matrimoniale con una lunga luna di miele. Un mese intero, isolati in chissà quale paradiso tropicale: solo il lento susseguirsi di mattine, pomeriggi, sere. Lì, per trenta giorni, lei l'ha sottoposto a una revisione completa". Dai "Pensieri oziosi di una persona oziosa" ma soprattutto dai "Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow", ecco una selezione dei testi di Jerome dedica...

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow... All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books", you may take this up for half an hour. It will be a change.' A book of essays and observations by one of the finest humorists of all time, 'Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow' has remained a classic since it was first published in the late ninete...

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