Oh, I should mention that Jerome K Jerome's works are in the public domain
Gutenberg has him. (http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/j#a173) I also recommend "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow," and I should soon be reading the followup to "Boat," "Three Men on the Bummel" (a term for a bike trip whose only limitation is a return date, evidently). Actually, looking at the linked list, I had no idea he had written so many novels.
Biographies of Jerome are somewhat interesting as he and his generation are the product of some government education initiative for universal education and a dozen years later the lands of England were suddenly flooded with literate nobodies (to the great chagrin of educated somebodies) and so some of JKJ's works were considered to be a new form of low-grade literature to feed the market for all these newly educated folks.
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Gutenberg has him. (http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/j#a173) I also recommend "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow," and I should soon be reading the followup to "Boat," "Three Men on the Bummel" (a term for a bike trip whose only limitation is a return date, evidently). Actually, looking at the linked list, I had no idea he had written so many novels.
Biographies of Jerome are somewhat interesting as he and his generation are the product of some government education initiative for universal education and a dozen years later the lands of England were suddenly flooded with literate nobodies (to the great chagrin of educated somebodies) and so some of JKJ's works were considered to be a new form of low-grade literature to feed the market for all these newly educated folks.