This book contains Jerome K. Jerome s 1891 monograph on stage productions, entitled "On the Stage and Off." Within this work, Jerome reflects on his personal experiences both good and bad working as an actor in the late-nineteenth century. A fascinating and insightful text, "On the Stage and Off" is highly recommended for those with an interest in the development of theatre, and would make for a great addition to collections of related literature. The chapters include: I Determine to Become and Actor, I Become and Actor, Through the Stage Door, Behind the Scenes, A Rehearsal, Scenery and...

Jerome K. Jerome, mest kand for sin succeroman "Tre man i en bat," gav aven ut tre bocker om "Lattingen" mellan 1886 och 1905. Dessa tre bocker inneholl funderingar och kaserier om sa skilda amnen som "Bor gifta man fa spela golf?," "Om kvinnors skotsel och underhall" och "Om vadret." Allt skrivet med samma underfundiga och lite torra humor som vi kommit att uppfatta som sa typiskt brittisk. Ingen av de tre bockerna hette "Lattsamma funderingar" men det gor nu denna samlingsvolym som Du haller i handen och som innehaller "En lattings lattsamma tankar" fran 1886, "En latting pa andra tankar"...

Jerome K. Jerome's tale of three well-to-do Englishmen, and one dog, on a boating expedition along the Thames is rightly famous as a comic classic. Jerome's masterful style turns even the most mundane events into a series of hilarious epics, from a visit to the doctor, to cooking breakfast, steering a punt or learning to play the banjo. But behind the light-hearted buffoonery and nimble-witted prose Jerome manages to weave into the story a pungent sarcasm, a pointed critique on both the self-centred nature of the English upper class, and the many ills of Victorian society.

Jerome K Jerome is one of England's best-loved humorists, and in his second book, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, he reveals a prodigious talent for quiet, comical philosophizing. Fourteen topics are covered, leaving the reader with new perspectives on such topics as the weather, lack of cash, the agonies of shyness, and being in love, which according to Jerome 'is like catching the measles, "we all have to go through it... but never need be afraid of catching it a second time." The world will never look the same again!

This volume stands as the only available critical edition of two of the most popular classics in English literature. Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford, providing along the way brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s. In Three Men on the Bummel, the three Englishmen escape from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later to go on a cycling tour in the Black Forest of Germany.
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