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The classic comic travelogue about an ill-fated boating holiday on the River Thames" Three Men in a Boat "is the irreverent tale of a group of friends who, along with a fox terrier named Montmorency, embark on a two-week boating journey up the Thames.

"Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" is a collection of humorous and entertaining essays written by popular English humorist Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist.

Джером Клапка Джером (1859–1927) – блестящий британский писатель-юморист, автор множества замечательных сатирических произведений, умевший весело и остроумно поведать публике о разнообразных нюансах частной и общественной жизни англичан всех сословий и возрастов.В состав данной книги вошла больша...

ClocksJerome K. Jerome Clocks CLOCKS There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right – except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be i...

Novel NotesJerome K. Jerome Novel Notes PROLOGUE Years ago, when I was very small, we lived in a great house in a long, straight, brown-coloured street, in the east end of London. It was a noisy, crowded street in the daytime; but a silent, lonesome street at night, when the gas-lights, few and f...

The Philosopher's JokeJerome K. Jerome The Philosopher's Joke THE PHILOSOPHER'S JOKE Myself, I do not believe this story. Six persons are persuaded of its truth; and the hope of these six is to convince themselves it was an hallucination. Their difficulty is there are six of them. Each one alone ...

The Angel and the Author, and OthersJerome K. Jerome The Angel and the Author and Others CHAPTER I I had a vexing dream one night, not long ago: it was about a fortnight after Christmas. I dreamt I flew out of the window in my nightshirt. I went up and up. I was glad that I was going up. “They ha...

The Observations of HenryJerome K. Jerome The Observations of Henry / Illustrated THE GHOST OF THE MARCHIONESS OF APPLEFORD This is the story, among others, of Henry the waiter – or, as he now prefers to call himself, Henri – told to me in the long dining-room of the Riffel Alp Hotel, where I onc...

Tommy and Co.Jerome K. Jerome Tommy and Co STORY THE FIRST – Peter Hope plans his Prospectus “Come in!” said Peter Hope.Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with hair of the kind referred to by sympathetic bar...

They and IJerome K. Jerome They and I CHAPTER I “It is not a large house,” I said. “We don’t want a large house. Two spare bedrooms, and the little three-cornered place you see marked there on the plan, next to the bathroom, and which will just do for a bachelor, will be all we shall require – at...