Jerome K. Jerome

End of A Madman by Maurice Level

LevelThe Man of Science by Jerome K. Jerome, read by John Feaster.

A self-contained excerpt from Chapter 5 of Novel Notes, 1893.

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The Man of Science by Jerome K. Jerome.

I met a man in the Strand one day that I knew very well, as I thought, though I had not seen him for years.

"Good," said I, "let's have it." He handed it to me, and I glanced at it.

It was a copy of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, Not to Mention the Dog.

"No flattery at all," said I, my growing conceit falling back to par.

"I'm glad you like it." And then, for the first and only time in my life, I committed forgery.

I took the book to a writing table near at hand, and inscribed the flyleaf with, "Appreciatively yours, Jerome K. Jerome." And as I left the hotel, the last sight that greeted my eyes was my kindly deputy assistant host, studying that inscription with a look of extreme bewilderment on his screwed-up countenance.

Apropos of this incident, it is rather curious how frequently my name and that of Jerome K. Jerome have been confounded.

I have always considered it a compliment, and I sincerely hope Jerome himself will not mind it.

I suppose the identity of our initials, J. K., is responsible for it, and possibly the fact also that Jerome's Three Men in a Boat and my own Houseboat on the Sticks were published at about the same time.

We should just say that Christopher Hayden is now running The Rose in Kingston and doing a brilliant job.

I really want to see the show that's just opened there, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, which is a book I absolutely adore.

So I will be making my way to that.

100%.

The shared understanding of the world changes as you travel and as society moves on.

The jokes that still work over these differences are ones that are either universal, see Mr. Bean and its many innovations on Man Falls Down, that reflect human nature, Jerome K. Jerome's inability to wake up in the morning in Three Men in a Boat, or that are set up and paid off by the piece itself, see Groucho Marx and his wonderful dog joke.

It's

too dark to read! I know that sounds very academic, but the important takeaway is this.

He handed it to me, and I glanced at it.

It was a copy of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, not to mention the dog.

No flattery at all, said I, my growing conceit falling back to par.

I'm glad you like it.

And then, for the first and only time in my life, I committed forgery.

I took the book to a writing table near at hand, and inscribed the flyleaf with, Appreciatively yours, Jerome K. Jerome.

And as I left the hotel, the last sight that greeted my eyes was my kindly deputy assistant host, studying that inscription with a look of extreme bewilderment on his screwed-up countenance.

Apropos of this incident, it is rather curious how frequently my name and that of Jerome K. Jerome have been confounded.

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Introduction by Jerome K. Jerome.

"Please, sir," he said, "could you tell me the right time?" "Twenty minutes to eight," I replied, looking at my watch.

"Oh," he remarked, then added for my information after a pause, "I haven't got to be in till half past eight." After that, we fell back into our former silence and sat watching the murky twilight, he at his end of the park seat, I at mine.

Some distance down the path he turned and waved his hand to me, and I watched him disappear into the twilight.

I sat on for a while, thinking many thoughts, until across the rising mist there rang a hoarse, harsh cry, "All out! All out!" And slowly I moved homeward.

End of the introduction by Jerome K. Jerome.

Section One of My First Book by Various Authors.

Yes.

by Jerome K. Jerome.

So these were published in 1898 and 1890.

So this was well before this book was published, but not necessarily before the story was written.

End of Nevada Sketches by Mark Twain

Reginald Blake, Financier and Cad by Jerome K. Jerome This is a LibriVox recording.

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He might have kept straight.

But, as his friends added, Blake always was a cad.

End of Reginald Blake, Financier and Cad by Jerome K. Jerome, read by John DeForest

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