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1Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

By Jerome K. Jerome

<i>Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)</i>, published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The three men were based on Jerome himself and two real-life friends, George, and Harris. The dog, Montmorency, however, was entirely fictional, but, as Jerome had remarked, "had much of me in it." (Summary from Wikipedia)

2Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

By Jerome K. Jerome

<i>Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow</i>, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and helped establish him as a leading English humorist. The book consists of 14 independent articles arranged by themes. (Summary from Wikipedia)

3Stage Land

By Jerome K. Jerome

A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, "the earnest student of drama".'

4Three Men on the Bummel

By Jerome K. Jerome

Some time after "Three Men in a Boat", George, Harris and Jerome decided to go on a cycling holiday through Germany.<br /><br />This relaxed and gently humorous story of the three friends wandering in and around the Black Forest is coloured by anecdotes, odd tales and Jerome's comments on the German people and their way of life.<br />(Published in 1914. Summary by Peter Yearsley)

5Tea-table Talk

By Jerome K. Jerome

As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glittering sort Mr. Jerome employs in some of his other books." <br /><br />It takes the form of imaginary conversations between the writer and a number of un-named characters at the afternoon tea table. The Woman of the World, the Old Maid, the Girton Girl, the Philosopher and the Minor Poet wax lyrical on subjects like marriage, art, society and politics. Frequently they appear to prefer the sound of their own voice to that of others. <br /><br />Although I couldn't agree with the NY Times that it is the Baedeker guide to conversation, it is certainly an eye-opening glimpse into this now almost extinct art. The participants are already bemoaning the lack of invigorating conversation in society: "Conversation has become a chorus; or, as a writer wittily expressed it, the pursuit of the obvious to no conclusion." (Summary by Ruth Golding)

6They and I

By Jerome K. Jerome

A man and his three children leave the “Little Mother” at home in the city and set up temporary housekeeping in a country cottage to supervise the remodeling of the house he has just purchased there. The story is narrated by the father. His interactions with his children, interspersed with his own recollections of past events, make for hilarious reading.<br><br>This is Jerome at his best, IMHO, although this is apparently one of this lesser known novels. (Summary by Debra Lynn)

7Told after Supper

By Jerome K. Jerome

It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of whisky punch and telling ghost stories until bedtime, when...<BR /><BR />But no, I won't spoil the fun. This is a little gem: Jerome at his tongue-in-cheek best. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

8Idle Ideas in 1905

By Jerome K. Jerome

Back in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including "Should Women Be Beautiful?", "Should Soldiers Be Polite?" and "Is The American Husband Made Entirely Of Stained Glass?". Each subject is analysed and commented on in the witty and satirical style we've grown to expect from the author.

9Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

By Jerome K. Jerome

A second volume of humorous essays on various subjects, following the success of Idle thoughts Of An Idle Fellow. (Summary by Chris Garbett)

10Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 2)

By Jerome K. Jerome

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. <br/><br />The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the 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. (Wikipedia)

11Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2)

By Jerome K. Jerome

Our Friends from Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog, are back. In this funny sequel to Three Men in a Boat J., George, and Harris are out of the boat and on the land riding their bikes. Their lives are too stressful and they need a break from the daily mundane, so they put their heads together and come up with a brilliant idea they decide to travel through the Black Forest of Germany on a bicycling tour. Since two of our friends are now married it seems they will also have to convince their wives that this is a good idea without getting each other into trouble! Meant to be a traveling book, but of course is anything but, let's go along on their journey and see for ourselves what kind of antics and fun our three old friends get caught up in. This book was published eleven years after the original "Three Men in a Boat". (Summary by Terra Mendoza)

12Diary of a Pilgrimage

By Jerome K. Jerome

A possibly fictionalised account by the comic novelist Jerome K. Jerome of a trip to Germany that he undertook with a friend in order to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau. The journey takes in London, Dover, Ostend, Cologne, Munich, Oberau, Oberammergau and then back to London via Heidelberg. As one might expect from the author of 'Three Men in a Boat', much goes wrong along the way, including seasickness, strange food, stranger beds, misleading guidebooks, bewildering train timetables, and numerous cultural and linguistic misunderstandings. (Summary by Szindbad)

13Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 3)

By Jerome K. Jerome

A humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog." The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. - Summary by Wikipedia

Jovinianus, had published at Rome a treatise containing the following opinions: (1) "That a virgin is no better as such than a wife in the sight of God. (2) Abstinence is no better than a thankful partaking of food. (3) A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. (4) All sins are equal. (5) There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state." Also he held the birth of our Lord to have been natural, rather than that Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as His Resurrection body afterwards did out of the tomb. All these opinions were condemned in synods at that city and at Milan (about A.D. 390). He subsequently sent Jovinian's books to Jerome, who answered them in the present treatise in the year 393. Book I is wholly on (1), marriage and virginity. Chp 4-13 are Jerome's sense, of St. Paul's teaching in 1 Cor. vii. In chp. 14-39 Jerome uses both the Old and the New Testaments. Chp. 40 praises virginity and single marriages from examples in the heathen world. - Summary: A shortened version from the introduction.

St. Hilarion (291–371 AD) was an anchorite who lived most of his life in the desert after the example of St. Anthony the Great (251–356 AD). He is considered to be the founder of Palestinian monasticism and venerated as a saint by the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Gaza to pagan parents. After successfully studying rhetoric in Alexandria, he converted to Christianity. After which, he shunned the pleasures of his day, the theatre, circus and arena, and spent his time going to church. Upon hearing of St. Antony and his way of life he purposed to become a monk, first spending time in Egypt and then returning to Gaza. - Summary summarized from Wikipedia

This is a collection of 135 brief biographies by St. Jerome of his forebears and contemporaries. It is often cited as a primary source of information on ancient Christian authors and their writings. The biographies start with the apostles and end with Jerome himself. They also include respected non-Christians such as Josephus, and Philo of Alexandria. In general, this work provides a quick overview of all the respected writers in the early centuries and their writings, which would be of interest to Christians. - Summary by ancientchristian

"It is so sad when relations don't get on together." "Sadder still when they think they've got a right to trample on you, just because you happen to be an orphan and - I don't want to talk about my relations. I want to forget them. I stood them for nearly six months. I don't want to be reminded of them. I want to forget that they ever existed." She is not going to have her wish. Oh, no, not at all. A comedy. - Summary by ToddHW <BR><BR>Cast list:<BR> Fanny: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11084">Devorah Allen</a><br> Vernon Wetherell, Lord Bantock (Her husband): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/15178">A D Latheron</a><br> Martin Bennet (Her Butler): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8011">Greg Giordano</a><br> Susannah Bennet (Her Housekeeper): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/3157">TriciaG</a><br> Jane Bennet (Her Maid): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7026">Michele Eaton</a><br> Ernest Bennet (Her Second Footman): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13577">Adrian Stephens</a><br> Honoria Bennet (Her Still-room Maid): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/4174">Availle</a><br> The Elder of the Misses Wetherell (Her Aunts by Marriage): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/14499">mleigh</a><br> The Younger of the Misses Wetherell (Her Aunts by Marriage): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13140">Jenn Broda</a><br> Dr. Freemantle (Her Local Medical Man): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170">Alan Mapstone</a><br> <BR>Our Empire <BR>England (One of Her Quondam Companions): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/15638">qthemusic123</a><br> Scotland (One of Her Quondam Companions): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179">Sonia</a><br> Ireland (One of Her Quondam Companions): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/15580">Joanna Michal Hoyt</a><br> Wales (One of Her Quondam Companions): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10995">April 6090</a><br> Canada (One of Her Quondam Companions): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/15193">Tchaikovsky</a><br> Africa (One of Her Quondam Companions): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11765">PaulHW</a><br> Straits Settlements (One of Her Quondam Companions): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10087">Sandra Schmit</a><br><BR> George P. Newte (Her Former Business Manager): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br> Stage Directions: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12075">MichaelMaggs</a><br> Editing: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br>

St. Jerome composed this essay against Helvidius, who stated that because the gospels mentioned Christ as having “sisters” and “brethren” the Virgin Mary must have had more children from Joseph her husband. In response Jerome asserts three propositions against Helvidius: <br><br> 1) That Joseph was only putatively, not really, the husband of Mary. <br> 2) That the “brethren” of the Lord were his cousins, not his own brethren. <br> 3) That virginity is better than the married state. <br> - Summary from the preface

St. Jerome's most famous letter (<i>Libellus de virginitate servanda</i>), written to St. Eustochium, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Roman widow St. Paula. St. Jerome exhorts St. Eustochium to embrace virginity and teaches her the proper conduct of a young woman. It contains his:<br> 1. view that God, though omnipotent, cannot restore a fallen virgin (§5)<br> 2. vivid description of fasting and temptation (§7)<br> 3. view of abortion, that it is murder (§13)<br> 4. term superbiam sanctam, virginity a "holy pride" (§16)<br> 5. praise of wedlock, that it gives him virgins (§20)<br> 6. further reading recommendations on virginity (§22)<br> 7. "Do you read? He [God] speaks to you." (§25)<br> 8. dream where the Judge condemns him a Ciceronian, not a Christian (§30)<br> 9. description of the three types of monasticism (§§34-36)<br> - Summary by Geremia

Some confusion over a farm and an unexpected inheritance, with expectations of someone who is holding such a position. "You have rather a countrified walk, if you will forgive me for saying so — a more neglige style is adopted by the savoir vivre now, sir, and a more insouciant manner of carrying the umbrella. You walk too much in this way, sir." (Taking up umbrella, gags, and imitates.) "Lord love us, do I walk like that?" "Just like that, sir. You see yourself, sir, what a very undestingue appearance it presents." - Summary by ToddHW <BR><BR>Cast list:<BR> Piffin: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br> Allen Rollitt: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8011">Greg Giordano</a><br> Luke Cranbourne: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17576">Beeswaxcandle</a><br> Mike Stratton: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17752">redrun</a><br> Mr. Purtwee: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425">Larry Wilson</a><br> Hon. Tom Gussett: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13577">Adrian Stephens</a><br> Baron Von Schnorr: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17662">Inkell</a><br> Richard Hanningford: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17681">Richard Stibbard</a><br> Ichabod: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13278">KevinS</a><br> Peters: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10087">Sandra Schmit</a><br> Colonel Jack Dexter: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170">Alan Mapstone</a><br> Clara Dexter: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16499">gracenfisk224</a><br> Mrs. Rollitt: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/4174">Availle</a><br> Rachael: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179">Sonia</a><br> Deborah Deacon: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13140">Jenn Broda</a><br> Stage Directions: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12075">MichaelMaggs</a><br> Editing: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br>

21All Roads Lead to Calvary

By Jerome K. Jerome

"<i>All Roads Lead to Calvary</i> is a 1919 novel by the British writer Jerome K. Jerome. It was one of the last works written by Jerome, better known for his <i>Three Men in a Boat</i>, and shows the influence of the First World War on him. It is a Bildungsroman in which a Cambridge University educated woman Joan Allway becomes a journalist and then a wartime ambulance driver. She encounters various people, gaining new experiences and confronting many of the moral issues of the day . .. In 1921 the novel was turned into a silent British film <i>All Roads Lead to Calvary</i> directed by Kenelm Foss." - Summary by Wikipedia

A mysterious dying man! A hidden diamond! Conspiracy to murder! Ghostly visitations! All this in more in this intriguing and unique story written in a round robin fashion by several of the great fiction writers of the day. The celebrated contributors include humorist Jerome K. Jerome , mystery novelist Eden Phillpotts, ghost and weird fiction author E. F. Benson, Irish author of historical fiction F. Frankfort Moore, and humor and horror fiction author Barry Pain. Together they have written a one-of-a-kind tale! (Summary by Ben Tucker)