Jerome K. Jerome

Idle Ideas in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome

It is rare to find a truly funny book. Jerome K Jerome was born in 1859. He was an English humorist best known for this travelogue Three Men in A Boat. Jerome decided to try his hand at acting, under the stage name Harold Crichton. He joined a repertory troupe, which had little money. The actors often had to use their own money to purchase costumes. Humorous works in this collection include Are We As Interesting As We Think We Are?, Should Women Be Beautiful?, When Is The Best Time To Be Merry?, Do We Lie A-Bed Too Late?, Should Married Men Play Golf?, Are Early Marriages A Mistake?, Do Writers Write Too Much?, Should Soldiers Be Polite?, Ought Stories To Be True?, Creatures That One Day Shall Be Men, How To Be Happy Though Little, Should We Say What We Think, Or Think What We Say?, Is The American Husband Made Entirely Of Stained Glass, Does The Young Man Know Everything Worth Knowing?, How Many Charms Hath Music, Would You Say?, The white man's burden! Need it be so heavy?, Why Didn't He Marry The Girl?, What Mrs. Wilkins thought about it, Shall We Be Ruined By Chinese Cheap Labour?, How To Solve The Servant Problem, and Why We Hate The Foreigner.