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Nonfiction · 1886

The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Jerome K. Jerome

Reading time
about 3 h
Length
42,028 words · 84 pages
Structure
14 chapters · 3 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, first published in 1886, 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. Dedication
  2. Dedication
  3. Preface
  4. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
  5. On Being Idle
  6. On Being in Love
  7. On Being in the Blues
  8. On Being Hard Up
  9. On Vanity and Vanities
  10. On Getting on in the World
  11. On the Weather
  12. On Cats and Dogs
  13. On Being Shy
  14. On Babies
  15. On Eating and Drinking
  16. On Furnished Apartments
  17. On Dress and Deportment

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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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