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The novel All Roads Lead to Cavalry offers an irreverent take on the social forces at play in England in the period leading up to and just following the outbreak of World War I. If you're interested in history but often find yourself bored by historical fiction, this funny, one-of-a-kind novel is for you.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-62012-718-6

Author, actor, playwright and journalist Jerome K. Jerome first rose to literary acclaim as a writer of hilarious travelogues. Diary of a Pilgrimage continues in this vein, recounting a journey by train to take in a performance of a passion play in Germany during which Jerome and his traveling companions must contend with a number of logistical difficulties, cultural miscues, and other snafus.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-62012-719-3

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. The essays cover a range of topics from On Being in Love to On Furnished Apartments to On Getting on in the World. Jerome established himself as one of England's favorite wits with his comic novel Three Men in a Boat.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-62012-413-0

Though Jerome K. Jerome is best remembered as a humorist, his fiction spans numerous genres, as evidenced by the diversity of the tales published in the collection Malvina of Brittany. A highlight is "The Street of the Blank Wall," a classic detective story that will please fans of Sherlock Holmes.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-77667-781-8

In this rollicking novel from respected British humorist Jerome K. Jerome, a group of four friends decide to stake their claim to literary fame by writing a book together. However, amidst writer's block, creative spats, and other assorted high jinks, the project never seems to move past the planning stages.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-77667-775-7

In the semi-autobiographical novel Paul Kelver, British humor writer Jerome K. Jerome details the eponymous narrator's rocky road through life, including his stints as an actor, a few disastrous love affairs, and a chance meeting with an influential stranger, eventually leading to his decision to become a writer.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-77667-771-9

In this witty and imaginative collection of short tales, renowned humor writer Jerome K. Jerome dreams up a series of amusing and enlightening conversations between archetypal characters, including the Woman of the World, the Old Maid, the Philosopher, and the Minor Poet.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-77667-763-4

If you like your philosophy tempered with a heaping dose of laughter, you've got to read The Philosopher's Joke by British humorist Jerome K. Jerome. There's no ponderous beard-stroking to be found here—instead, Jerome offers a fresh take on a classic thought experiment that's packed with wry observations and hilarious insight into human nature.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-62012-720-9

In this uproarious comedy of manners co-written by humorist Jerome K. Jerome, lauded by critics and fans as one of his best, upper-class pretensions are satirized when an affluent gentleman is discovered to be leading a scandalous double life. Meanwhile, the question of women's role in society at the turn of the twentieth century is also tackled.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-77667-769-6

This chilling tale of the supernatural from Jerome K. Jerome centers around a wicked, curmudgeonly businessman who has an encounter with a mysterious visitor who takes the form of a humble peddler — and who offers Nicholas a remarkable proposition.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-77667-765-8

Three Men on the Bummel is the sequel to Three Men in a Boat, which Jerome K. Jerome originally wrote as a travel guide. As the humorous anecdotes took over the story, it eventually turned into a masterpiece of comedy. This novel reprises the same three characters as they explore the Black Forest in Germany.
Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek
ISBN: 978-1-62012-414-7