Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. Jerome, Fiction, Classics, Literary - Jerome, Jerome K.
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"Why do the heroines in romances all have wide, low foreheads?" Once introduced to this and a dozen other absurd and fascinating questions, we find ourselves dizzily plunged into a world long gone but well worth revisiting -- especially when our guide is Jerome K. Jerome. Anyone who has gone boating with the rascally dog Montmorency in "Three Men in a Boat" will find generous helpings of Jerome's delightful insights into men, women, society, and even writing, in "Idle Ideas in 1905." His jovial rapier still stabs to the heart, over a century later.

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"Why do the heroines in romances all have wide, low foreheads?" Once introduced to this and a dozen other absurd and fascinating questions, we find ourselves dizzily plunged into a world long gone but well worth revisiting -- especially when our guide is Jerome K. Jerome. Anyone who has gone boating with the rascally dog Montmorency in "Three Men in a Boat" will find generous helpings of Jerome's delightful insights into men, women, society, and even writing, in "Idle Ideas in 1905." His jovial rapier still stabs to the heart, over a century later.
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Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist best known for his comedic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and a number of novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, while he was able to attend grammar school, his family and he struggled financially as a young man working in numerous industries. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, which led to success. He married in 1888, and their honeymoon was spent on a boat on the Thames; he authored Three Men in a Boat shortly after. He continued to write fiction, nonfiction, and plays for the next three decades, but never achieved the same degree of popularity. Jerome was born in Belsize House on 1 Caldmore Road in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He was the fourth child of Marguerite Jones and Jerome Clapp (after known as Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher with an interest in building. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and a brother, Milton, who died at a young age.