The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" by Jerome K. Jerome is a humorous collection of essays written in the late 19th century. This work reflects on the absurdities and challenges of daily life, touching on themes of indecision and the human experience through a blend of comedy and philosophical musings. The essays typically employ a conversational style, allowing readers to engage intimately with the thoughts of the narrator, who seems to embody an everyman perspective on life's trivialities. The opening of the book presents a lively, comedic dialogue centered around a woman's indecision while shopping for fabric. It illustrates her struggles in making a choice between a grey and a red material, which reflects larger themes of human indecisiveness and societal pressures regarding appearances. The narrator humorously interjects with thoughts on male indecision, questioning the evolving standards of masculinity and fashion, and hinting at the absurdity of worrying too much about superficial concerns. This set-up establishes the tone of the collection-a blend of everyday observations infused with wit and introspection that invites the reader to reflect on their own experiences with indecision and societal expectations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

On the art of making up one's mind

On the disadvantage of not getting what one wants

On the exceptional merit attaching to the things we meant to do

On the preparation and employment of love philtres

On the delights and benefits of slavery

On the care and management of women

On the minding of other people's business

On the time wasted in looking before one leaps

On the nobility of ourselves

On the motherliness of man

On the inadvisability of following advice

On the playing of marches at the funerals of marionettes.

Credits:

This etext was prepared by Les Bowler from the 1899 Hurst and Blackett edition

Notes:

Reading ease score: 81.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Release date is 1999-10-01