Jerome K Jerome
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Jerome Klapka Jerome 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 born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at...
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"A Man of Habit" is a well-known essay by Jerome Klapka Jerome, an outstanding British writer and humourist (1859 — 1927). While going by boat from North America to England, the travellers share their stories about the power of habit — how a widower cannot fall asleep without his wife's snort, another man has lunch in the middle of the night, after a change of time zone, and so on.
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"The Angel and the Author and Others" is a cycle of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome, an outstanding British writer and humourist (1859 — 1927). The collection consists of 19 essays, in which the author is more engaged by moral and ethic issues, the inner world of characters, behavior psychology. Here there is less sparkling humour, peculiar to the writer's early works.
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"Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green" is a collection of 18 essays by Jerome Klapka Jerome, an outstanding British writer and humourist (1859—1927). In an ironical form, the author tells about ordinary people, conventional manners, ups and downs, about outstanding individuals and common herd, in which a reader will be able to see himself or his acquaintances.
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"Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)" is a short novel, which is one of the best works by a magnificent playwright and a classic of humorous prose Jerome Klapka Jerome. It is a story about a voyage up the Thames of three English gentlemen and a dog named Montmorency, who get into the most comic and curious situations on their way.
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Español
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Tres hombres en una barca es un relato humorístico publicado en 1889, por el escritor inglés Jerome K. Jerome.
Tres amigos, George, Harris y el propio Jerome, deciden remontar el Támesis junto con Montmorency, el perro. Al hilo de sus aventuras y sus bromas, el lector se sumerge en la hermosa campiña inglesa en un relato donde el humor se combina sabiamente con el documental sobre viajes, pues se trata del libro del Támesis por excelencia, contado...
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Was machen drei junge, hypochondrische Freunde samt einem neurotischen Foxterrier, wenn sie dem Wetter entfliehen wollen und wilde Abenteuer suchen?
Sie packen Blazer, Hut und Schlips ein und fahren in einem Ruderboot auf der Themse in die Wildnis hinauf.
Doch sie haben den Büchsenöffner vergessen, die Zahnbürste ist unauffindbar, und wenn sie einem Schild begegnen, auf dem steht "Achtung! Gefahr! Nicht hier entlang!", dann steuern sie schnurstracks...
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"Three Men in a Boat" follows the humorous misadventures of three friends - Jerome, George, and Harris - and their trusty dog, Montmorency, as they embark on a boating holiday on the River Thames. The story, a combination of travelogue and comic fiction, takes readers on a delightful journey filled with absurd incidents and hilarious anecdotes. Jerome K. Jerome's witty observations and satirical commentary on Victorian society, coupled with the camaraderie...
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Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land. But it's quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Shackleton and Chase persevered in the face of travails that would have given even Job pause. Their stoic...