“The stage hero never has any work to do. He is always hanging about and getting into trouble. His chief aim in life is to be accused of crimes he has never committed, and if he can muddle things up with a corpse in some complicated way so as to get himself reasonably mistaken for the murderer, he feels his day has not been wasted...”
A comic look at the curious habits and customs of...
There comes a time in every one’s life when he feels he was born to be an actor. Something within him tells him that he is the coming man, and that one day he will electrify the world. Then he burns with a desire to show them how the thing’s done, and to draw a salary of three hundred a week...
This audiobook is a faithful reproduction of one of Jerome K Jerome’s first successes,...
Following the great success of Three Men in a Boat a friend of mine said, "Well now, why don't you write a sensible book? I should like to see you make people think." "Do you believe it can be done then?" I asked. "Well, try," he replied. Diary of a Pilgrimage is a story bubbling with Jerome's wit and whimsy interspersed with intervals of calm reflection. Written in 1891 it is the tale of a journey...
A wonderfully amusing and engaging account of the escapades of a naive student thrown into university life amongst the hallowed halls of Oxford c. 1850. Widely regarded as a comic masterpiece of its time (it sold over 200,000 copies) it brings to mind the writing of Jerome K Jerome or an adventure PG Woodhouse might have penned for a slightly more academic Bertie Wooster. Cuthbert Bede, B.A. is the...
Dwaj bohaterowie siedzą w pubie vis a vis szklanej gabloty, w której znajduje się gigantycznej wielkości pstrąg, jak się wydaje – wypchany. Co chwila podchodzi do nich nowy „właściciel ryby” opisując w jaki sposób dokonał tego „wielkiego połowu”. W końcu barman dementuje wszystkie te historie przyznając, że to on dokonał tego dzieła. Ktoś przypadkowo strąca...
