Jerome K Jerome

The author of Three Men in a Boat, writes himself in as a character in this marvelous novel. The plot unfolds as he and three of his bachelor friends (he is married) set out to write a novel. As they embark on this venture and their eccentricities come into play, will they ever manage to finish the story?

George, Harry y Jerome protagonistas también de Tres hombres en una barca necesitados de un profundo cambio en sus vidas, emprenden un nuevo periplo: esta vez viajan a Alemania para desentrañar la idiosincrasia germana. Dados sus temples tan distintos, cada uno concurre con sus propios disparates al desmán común, precipitándose a través de una serie de escenas de naturaleza muy diferente a la que habrían deseado, y mucho menos previsto, y con...

Un escritor y sus tres hijos llegan a la campiña para supervisar la remodelación de su nueva casa. Metido en harina, el novelista hará uso de toda su inteligencia para enfrentarse a la peculiar manera de encarar la vida rural que tienen sus retoños, cuyo hábitat natural debería ser el zoo. Dick, el mayor, hambriento bon vivant, experimentará una epifanía que le hará sentar cabeza, o eso quiere creer todo el mundo. Robina, su hermana, tan...

"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.

A play in three acts.

Although not the equal of his "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" (1886), one can still find sublime passages here and there that demonstrate the occasional genius of a wonderful observer and humorist. The passages are worth reading the rest.

'On the Stage - and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-be Actor' was Jerome K. Jerome's first published book. It is a lightly fictionalised memoir, rather in the style of 'Three Men in a Boat', with its hapless narrator detailing his inglorious adventures in the lower reaches of the late Victorian theatrical world, amongst its seedy theatres, drunken actors and dodgy managers. It is based on Jerome's own early experiences as an aspiring thesp. The title...

In the title story-adapted by the author into a successful play-a mysterious, Christ-like stranger visits a run-down boarding home and transforms the lives of its residents. Other selections in this 1904 collection are "The Philosopher's Joke," "The Soul of Nicholas Snyders," "Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies," "The Cost of Kindness," and "The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl."

Lieutenant Lena Stillman has been left, nearly alone, on her code-breaking mission in remote Alaska. World War II has been over for a month, but due to crimes committed a lifetime ago, Lena is still under the control of the powerful Miss Maggie, her spymaster in Washington, DC. Shaken by her role in the disappearance of Corporal Link Hughes, Lena yearns for an opportunity to redeem them both. Then she receives a shocking message containing Link's...

Another classic short story by Jerome K. Jerome, The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl is a mirthful then sobering story during the Franco-Prussian War of a non-traditional embodiment of "love." Poetic in both scope and style.