Books by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
Three feckless young men take a rowing holiday on the Thames river in 1888.
Referenced by [Robert A. Heinlein][1] in [Have Spacesuit Will Travel][2] as Kip's father's favorite book. Inspired [To Say Nothing of the Dog][3] by [Connie Willis][4].
[1]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL28641A/Robert_A._Heinlein
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59727W/Have_Space_Suit_Will_Travel
[3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14858398W/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog_or_how_we_found_the_bishop's_bird_stump_at_last#about/about
[4]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL20934A/Connie_Willis
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. The essays cover a range of topics from "On Being in Love" to "On Furnished Apartments" to "On Getting on in the World". Jerome established himself as one of England's favorite wits with his comic novel Three Men in a Boat.