Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. Jerome, Fiction, Classics, Literary de Jerome K. Jerome

Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. Jerome, Fiction, Classics, Literary: Antinomianism and the Westminster Assembly

Jerome K. Jerome

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2007

"Why do the heroines in romances all have wide, low foreheads?" Once introduced to this and a dozen other absurd and fascinating questions, we find ourselves dizzily plunged into a world long gone but well worth revisiting -- especially when our guide is Jerome K. Jerome.
Anyone who has gone boating with the rascally dog Montmorency in Three Men in a Boat will find generous helpings of Jerome's delightful insights into men, women, society, and even writing, in Idle Ideas in 1905. His jovial rapier still stabs to the heart, over a century later.

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Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat and several other novels. Jerome was inspired by his older sister Blandina's love for the theatre and he decided to try his hand at acting in 1877, under the stage name Harold Crichton. He joined a repertory troupe that produced plays on a shoestring budget, often drawing on the actors' own meager resources - Jerome was penniless at the time - to purchase costumes and props. After three years on the road with no evident success, the 21-year-old Jerome decided that he had enough of stage life and sought other occupations. He tried to become a journalist, writing essays, satires and short stories, but most of these were rejected. Over the next few years, he was a school teacher, a packer and a solicitor's clerk. Finally, in 1885, he had some success with On the Stage - and Off (1885), a comic memoir of his experiences with the acting troupe, followed by Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886), a collection of humorous essays which had previously appeared in the newly founded magazine, Home Chimes, the same magazine that would later serialize Three Men in a Boat.