On the art of making up ones mindon the disadvantage of not getting what one wantson the exceptional merit attaching to the things we meant to doon the preparation. The author died in 1927, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the term is the authors life plus 80 years or less. These are his idle and amusing thoughts on all aspects of life, from love to poverty, vanity to ambition, babies to cats and dogs. The idle thoughts of an idle fellow community note includes chapterbychapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and.
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Preface on being idle on being in love on being in the blues on being hard up on vanity and vanities on getting on in the world on the weather on cats and dogs on being shy on babies on eating and drinking on furnished apartments on dress and deportment on. For sale is second thoughts of an idle fellow, jerome k. But with the idle thoughts of an idle fellow, even before the book, the introduction caught me, hook, line and sinker. In this succeeding outburst of whimsy jerome reflects on a variety of subjects such as the art of making up ones mind, the care and management of women and the minding of other peoples business. The idle thoughts of an idle fellow, published in 1886, established jerome k. Red cloth, lettered in black on spine listed in english catalogue, july 1911, 1. Now this is a subject on which i flatter myself i really am au fait. Dec 19, 2016 idle thoughts of an idle fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by jerome k.
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Idle thoughts of an idle fellow by jerome, jerome k. Being hard up, being in the blues and being in love are just some aspects of the human condition on which jerome k. Read the fulltext online edition of idle thoughts of an idle fellow 1890. Project gutenberg s idle thoughts of an idle fellow, by jerome k. Idle thoughts of an idle fellow, is a collection of humorous essays by jerome k. Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of the idle thoughts of an idle fellow. It was the authors second published book and it helped establish him as a leading english humorist. The gentleman who, when i was young, bathed me at wisdoms font for nine guineas a termno extrasused to say he never knew a boy who could do less work in more time. This work is considered widely to be on the of better works of jerome, and uses the same style as three men in a.
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