Lazy Person's Lazy Thoughts (Chinese-English Parallel)

Author: (English) Jerome
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: J.K. Jerome (1859-1927), a renowned modern British humorist, novelist, essayist, and playwright. His works are known for their wit and wisdom, filled with reflections on life. His later works became more serious and profound. His humorous masterpieces, Three Men in a Boat and Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, remain widely popular in the English-speaking world and have established his unique position in world literature. This book is from the hand of the British humorist Jerome, a thinker who observes the world from the perspective of an "idler." Ordinary life details enter his writing and instantly become lively and insightful. The 21 essays selected in this book include 9 from Jerome's Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 4 from More Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, and 8 from 1905 Idle Thoughts. In these essays, Jerome, with a humorous and sharp pen, portrays the social landscape of 19th-century England. "A page of laughter, a tear," he is the true clever man of the world, the great hidden in the city, observing the hustle and bustle with a cold eye, mocking and satirizing. With a delicate and sensitive heart, he observes all of life, then depicts it on paper with humor and wisdom, leaving the world to judge.