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The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Author
Jerome K. Jerome
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
6 hours
ISBN
9781836104179
Published
11 May 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • humorous essays
  • British humor
  • social satire
  • everyday observations
  • human nature
  • witty reflections
  • leisure and idleness
  • Victorian society
  • comic literature
  • philosophical humor

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Jerome K. Jerome turns again to everyday habits, ambition, memory, and modern foibles with warm satire that makes ordinary life newly useful to notice. Comedy carries practical reflection on how people actually behave when nobody is watching the grand stage. Spoken as when second thoughts of an idle fellow still ask what idleness can teach once wit has already named our quirks.

Author

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.

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