14 books in 1: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat, Three Men On The Bummel, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Novel Notes, Paul Kelver, Tommy and Co., They ... Of An Idle Fellow, Second Thoughts of [Paperback]

Jerome K Jerome (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2006

This unique, great-value edition contains 14 full length works by the English humorist Jerome K Jerome. Includes the complete text of: Three Men in a Boat, Three Men on the Bummel, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Novel Notes, Paul Kelver, Tommy and Co, They and I, All Roads Lead to Calvary, Idle Ideas in 1905, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Tea-Table Talk, Told after Supper, and The Passing of the Third Floor Back. A must for any fan of Jerome K Jerome's original and witty writing!

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

"One or two friends to whom I showed these papers in MS having observed that they were not half bad, and some of my relations having promised to buy the book if it ever came out, I feel I have no right to longer delay its issue. But for this, as one may say, public demand, I perhaps should not have ventured to offer these mere "idle thoughts" of mine as mental food for the English-speaking peoples of the earth. What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this up for half an hour. It will be a change."

From the Inside Flap

I objected to the sea trip strongly. A sea trip does you good when you are going to have a couple of months of it, but, for a week, it is wicked.

You start on Monday with the idea implanted in your bosom that you are going to enjoy yourself. You wave an airy adieu to the boys on shore, light your biggest pipe, and swagger about the deck as if you were Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake and Christopher Columbus all rolled into one. On Tuesday, you wish you hadn't come. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, you wish you were dead. On Saturday, you are able to swallow a little beef tea, and to sit up on deck, and answer with a wan, sweet smile when kind-hearted people ask you how you feel now. On Sunday, you begin to walk about again, and take solid food. And on Monday morning, as, with your bag and umbrella in your hand, you stand by the gunwale, waiting to step ashore, you begin to thoroughly like it.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax Ltd (December 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0954840178
• ISBN-13: 978-0954840174
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,343,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terribly disappointing, February 8, 2007

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Dr. R. E. Wyllys (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 14 books in 1: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat, Three Men On The Bummel, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Novel Notes, Paul Kelver, Tommy and Co., They ... Of An Idle Fellow, Second Thoughts of (Paperback)

Unless you must have the text of these 14 Jerome K. Jerome books, don't waste your money (as I regret doing) on this terribly disappointing volume. It's densely printed, in two columns per page, in a rather small typeface, and has none of the illustrations that the original books had and that, for me, added much to their charm. I opened this volume once, and immediately put it straight into my bag of "Books to be Discarded."

Ronald Wyllys

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 14 books in 1: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat, Three Men On The Bummel, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Novel Notes, Paul Kelver,, February 8, 2007

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This review is from: 14 books in 1: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat, Three Men On The Bummel, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Novel Notes, Paul Kelver, Tommy and Co., They ... Of An Idle Fellow, Second Thoughts of (Paperback)

This book offers an extremely rare opportunity - to own most of JKJ's works in one volume at a terrific price! I have been collecting Jerome K. Jerome's books for years; editions ranging from early 20th century to contemporary paperbacks. And now I have them all, the works of the greatest, the most brilliant humorist ever born (to say nothing of his punctuation!)

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable author, but the book is physically too big., May 7, 2007

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I'd recommend both the author and his work but not in this format. A paperback that is nearly 10" by 8" by 2" is too heavy and clumsy to hold and read. I've already dropped it a couple times and I'm hoping I can finish reading it before the binding starts to go. Too expensive a purchase to last through only one reading.