Vroege Recensenten

Touching on subjects as vital to successful living as ‘The Inadvisability of Following Advice’ and ‘The Disadvantage of Not Getting What One Wants’, Jerome K. Jerome here sets forth an infectiously buoyant and timeless philosophy. With his characteristically charming anecdotal style, the eminent wit and perennially popular author of Three Men in a Boat and The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow enlivens topics common to everyday life and expounds ebulliently on more profound considerations. Written twelve years after The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, when the author had established himself as one of the great figures of the contemporary literary scene, the meditations in this collection bear the mark of the mature man, by turns droll and insightful.