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All Roads Lead to Calvary

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Joan is a smart and independent woman working as a journalist in London. She has grand plans for her future, dreaming of the day when she publishes her novel. However, when the war comes, she decides to go for the adventure of it. When she's there, she realizes that war is not all the romantics say it is.
Clocks

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Dreams

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Drei Mann in einem Boot. Ganz zu schweigen vom Hund!

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Mit seiner Schilderung einer vertrackten Bootsfahrt auf der Themse schuf Jerome K. Jerome 1889 einen der beliebtesten Klassiker britischen Humors. Sein scharfer, wenn auch wohlwollender Blick entlarvt die Tücken einer Freizeitkultur, die sich noch heute – etwa unter dem Namen «Camping» – größter Beliebtheit erfreut.Eine Bootsfahrt auf der Themse – zu Zeiten von Königin Viktoria der Inbegriff des Ferienglücks. Auch die drei Freunde George, Harris und J. rudern auf der Suche nach Natur und Erholung zwölf Tage lang flussaufwärts: von Kingston nach Maidenhead, Marlow, Dorchester, Reading und Oxford – und dabei von einer Panne zur nächsten. Gemeinsam mit Hund Montgomery kämpfen sie einen sympathischen, wenn auch hoffnungslosen Kampf gegen die Tücken des Objekts. Ein Sturz ins kalte Wasser kann die Freunde nicht aus der Fassung bringen, und auch alle übrigen Missgeschicke, trocken serviert von Erzähler J., wissen sie mit Stil und Witz zu ertragen. Die Gentlemen trösten sich mit der reizvollen Atmosphäre der Themsestädtchen (und in deren Kneipen), bis der Regen sie vorzeitig in die Zivilisation Londons zurücktreibt.Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) sah sich als echter Humorist für die Unzulänglichkeiten des Daseins ebenso zuständig wie für Kritik an den Zeitumständen. Hierzulande erlangte sein Buch in den sechziger Jahren große Popularität, als die Bootsfahrt – verlegt in die damalige Bundesrepublik – mit Heinz Erhardt, Walter Giller und Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff verfilmt wurde.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome’s better works, and in spite of using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter. The book was out of print for many years, but a paperback edition became available in 2002. A second "Idle Thoughts" book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898.
My First Book

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My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome and 185 illustrations.
My Life and Times

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Jerome K Jerome struggled against poverty and obscurity, not to mention his improbable name, for many years before “Three Men in a Boat” made him a celebrity and the friend of other celebrities. A man of deep human sympathies and principles, he lived through and engaged with, a time — like our own — of unprecedented changes and inventions, most of which are commonplace now. Much of his writing, especially for the theatre, has now been forgotten, but a year before his death in 1927, he published his autobiography in the popular style he pioneered — still in daily use by journalists.
Novel Notes

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Paul Kelver

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“Paul Kelver” (1902) is an autobiographical novel by Jerome K. Jerome.
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green

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Stage-land

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Tea-table Talk

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The Angel and the Author - and others

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The Dancing Partner

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They and I

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THREE MEN IN A BOAT

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over, to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages now seem like an unnecessary distraction to the essentially comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers. The jokes seem fresh and witty even today.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

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Three Men on the Bummel

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Tommy and Co

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