Jerome K. Jerome

Titles in Fiction category:

• All Roads Lead to Calvary

  She had not meant to stay for the service. The door had stood invitingly open, and a glimpse of the interior had suggested to her the idea that it would make good copy. "Old London Churches: Their Social and Historical Associations." It would be easy to collect anecdotes of the famous people ...

Titles in Short Stories category:

• Cost of Kindness, The

  "Kindness," argued little Mrs. Pennycoop, "costs nothing."

• Love of Ulrich Nebendahl, The

  Perhaps of all, it troubled most the Herr Pfarrer. Was he not the father of the village? And as such did it not fall to him to see his children marry well and suitably? marry in any case. It was the duty of every worthy citizen to keep alive throughout the ages the sacred hearth fire, to rea ...

• Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies

  "I do mean it," declared Mrs. Korner, "I like a man to be a man."

• Passing of the Third Floor Back

  The neighbourhood of Bloomsbury Square towards four o'clock of a November afternoon is not so crowded as to secure to the stranger, of appearance anything out of the common, immunity from observation. Tibb's boy, screaming at the top of his voice that she was his honey, stopped suddenly, ...

• Philosopher's Joke, The

  Myself, I do not believe this story. Six persons are persuaded of its truth; and the hope of these six is to convince themselves it was an hallucination. Their difficulty is there are six of them. Each one alone perceives clearly that it never could have been. Unfortunately, they are close ...

• Soul of Nicholas Snyders, The

  Once upon a time in Zandam, which is by the Zuider Zee, there lived a wicked man named Nicholas Snyders. He was mean and hard and cruel, and loved but one thing in the world, and that was gold. And even that not for its own sake. He loved the power gold gave him--the power to tyrannize and t ...