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Jerome
This book assembles a representative selection of Jerome's voluminous output. It will help readers to a balanced portrait of a brilliant and complex man who was a major intellectual force in the early church.
The Other Jerome K Jerome
Jerome K Jerome is without doubt best known today for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat. More than a century after its first publication it is still making people laugh. But Jerome was very much more than a one-book wonder, writing plays, essays, short stories, sketches and other novels. The Other Jerome K Jerome is, in effect, a jerome 'reader', providing a carefully chosen selection from his other works demonstrative of the variety and brilliance of his writing. Including excerpts from On the Stage-and Off, The Passing of the Third Floor Back and Diary of a Pilgrimate, amongst others, and with an introduction by Martin Green, this is an ideal companion for fans of 'Three Men in a Boat' who want to find out more about is author's other works.
Against Jovinianus
Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.
The Observations of Henry by Jerome K. Jerome
‘This is the story, among others, of Henry the waiter—or, as he now prefers to call himself, Henri—told to me in the long dining-room of the Riffel Alp Hotel, where I once stayed for a melancholy week "between seasons".’ The collection of short stories in The Observations of Henry are a witty and wondrous insight into the life and times of 19th century England, as told by an enigmatic waiter, Henry (Henri). An observer of life, and offering counsel to his various customers’ romantic entanglements, dramas and career carry-ons, the charming tales from a unique hotelier’s perspective is an uplifting, funny and occasionally shocking set of tit-bits from some of the more memorable cha...
Jerome K. Jerome Collection Vol 3 Diary of a Pilgrimage, Told After Supper, Passing of the Third Floor Back, Woodbarrow Farm . (4 Books)
Jerome K. Jerome Volume 3, 4 Books This volume collects 4 of the best known books by Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 - 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat, and several other novels.The works included are:Volume 3Diary Of A Pilgrimage,Told After Supper,Passing of the Third Floor Back,Woodbarrow Farm .(4 Books)
The Passion Of Jerome
An ordinary man is forced to confront both his own demons and the manifestation of the supernatural beyond his comprehension and control Jeremy Furlong is a successful businessman, whose life has been carefully constructed from layer upon layer of lies. That is until now, when he is confronted by the trapped poltergeist spirit of a dead boy in the squalid flat he using to have an affair. The Passion of Jerome premiered at the Peacock stage of the Abbey Theatre in February 1999. "A writer of frenetic energy and imagination." (Sunday Times)
Below the Fairy City
The life of Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927) author of "Three Men in a Boat, " has been left unexplored. Oulton unearths hitherto unknown details of his early life in Walsall and follows his momentous move to the Fairy City of London, where a formative encounter with Charles Dickens influenced his choice of profession.
Jerome by Heart
"A young boy expresses his love for his friend Jerome"--
