Nonfiction · 1898
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, first published in 1898, 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
- Epigraph
- On the Art of Making Up One’s Mind
- On the Disadvantage of Not Getting What One Wants
- On the Exceptional Merit Attaching to the Things We Meant to Do
- On the Preparation and Employment of Love Philtres
- On the Delights and Benefits of Slavery
- On the Care and Management of Women
- On the Minding of Other People’s Business
- On the Time Wasted in Looking Before One Leaps
- On the Nobility of Ourselves
- On the Motherliness of Man
- On the Inadvisability of Following Advice
- On the Playing of Marches at the Funerals of Marionettes
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About the author
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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