Lattsamma Funderingar de Jerome Klapka Jerome

Lattsamma Funderingar

Jerome Klapka Jerome

Hardback – 10 iul 2015

Jerome K. Jerome, mest känd för sin succéroman "Tre män i en båt", gav även ut tre böcker om "Lättingen" mellan 1886 och 1905.Dessa tre böcker innehöll funderingar och kåserier om så skilda ämnen som "Bör gifta män få spela golf?", "Om kvinnors skötsel och underhåll" och "Om vädret". Allt skrivet med samma underfundiga och lite torra humor som vi kommit att uppfatta som så typiskt brittisk.Ingen av de tre böckerna hette "Lättsamma funderingar" men det gör nu denna samlingsvolym som Du håller i handen och som innehåller "En lättings lättsamma tankar" från 1886, "En lätting på andra tankar" från 1899, samt "Lättsamma tankar av år 1905" från 1905.Kanske inte en bok man sträckläser, men väl tar fram en mulen och trist eftermiddag och låter sig roas av något väl valt ämne.

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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.