The Idle Thoughs of an Idle Fellow.

By Jerome J Jerome

Printed: 1890

Publisher: The Leadenhall Press. London

Edition: First edition

Dimensions 14 × 20 × 2.5 cm
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Language: English

Size (cminches): 14 x 20 x 2.5

Condition: Very good  (See explanation of ratings)

£38.00
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Tan cloth binding with title on black title on the spine and the front board.

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A very clean early edition

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome’s better works, and in spite of using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter. A second “Idle Thoughts” book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 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 FellowThree 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 times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success followed. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards. He continued to write fiction, non-fiction and plays over the next few decades, though never with the same level of success. He died in 1927 and his body was cremated

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