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Fiction · 1897

Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green

Jerome K. Jerome

Reading time
about 4.5 h
Length
59,628 words · 217 pages
Structure
20 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green, first published in 1897, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Reginald Blake, Financier and Cad
  2. An Item of Fashionable Intelligence
  3. Blase Billy
  4. The Choice of Cyril Harjohn
  5. The Materialisation of Charles and Mivanway
  6. Portrait of a Lady
  7. The Man Who Would Manage
  8. The Man Who Lived for Others
  9. A Man of Habit
  10. The Absent-Minded Man
  11. A Charming Woman
  12. Whibley’s Spirit
  13. The Man Who Went Wrong
  14. The Hobby Rider
  15. The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck
  16. Dick Dunkerman’s Cat
  17. The Minor Poet’s Story
  18. The Degeneration of Thomas Henry
  19. The City of the Sea
  20. Mrs. Travers

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Jerome K. Jerome

1859–1927 · Victorian

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) was born in Walsall, left school at fourteen, and worked as a railway clerk, actor, teacher and journalist before Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Three Men in a Boat (1889) made him famous. He edited the magazines The Idler and To-Day, wrote plays (The Passing of the Third Floor Back, 1908) and a sequel, Three Men on the Bummel (1900).

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