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Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) made English humour sound like a friend talking — ironic, lazy, and suddenly exact about human folly. Three Men in a Boat is his masterpiece: a mock-epic of river travel in which packing, weather, and wounded dignity become high adventure. Before and after it he wrote essays and sequels that celebrate idleness as a mild philosophy — Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow chief among them. Jerome knew poverty, the stage, and the grind of making a living by the pen; the lightness of his best pages is hard-won. Readers who want laughter without bitterness will find him endlessly revisitable — and a gateway into twenty-two titles of gentle comic life.

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