{"product_id":"9781486418848","title":"The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - The Original Classic Edition","description":"Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Jerome K. Jerome, which is now, at last, again available to you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe gentleman who, when I was young, bathed me at wisdoms font for nine guineas a term-no extras-used to say he never knew a boy who could do less work in more time; and I remember my poor grandmother once incidentally observing, in the course of an instruction upon the use of the Prayer-book, that it was highly improbable that I should ever do much that I ought not to do, but that she felt convinced beyond a doubt that I should leave undone pretty well everything that I ought to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...If, by any extraordinary chance, there was no war going, then they got up a deadly family feud with the next-door neighbor, and if, in spite of this, they still had a few spare moments on their hands, they occupied them with discussions as to whose sweetheart was the best looking, the arguments employed on both sides being battle-axes, clubs, etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e... But if the other fellow broke his head-not his own, you know, but the other fellows-the other fellow to the second fellow, that is, because of course the other fellow would only be the other fellow to him, not the first fellow who-well, if he broke his head, then his girl-not the other fellows, but the fellow who was the-Look here, if A broke Bs head, then As girl was a pretty girl; but if B broke As head, then As girl wasnt a pretty girl, but Bs girl was. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...I am looking forward to the time when we men shall have nothing to do but lie in bed till twelve, read two novels a day, have nice little five-oclock teas all to ourselves, and tax our brains with nothing more trying than discussions upon the latest patterns in trousers and arguments as to what Mr. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...Many dear old ladies who daily look at tiny shoes lying in lavender-scented drawers, and weep as they think of the tiny feet whose toddling march is done, and sweet-faced young ones who place each night beneath their pillow some lock that once curled on a boyish head that the salt waves have kissed to death, will call me a nasty cynical brute and say Im talking nonsense; but I believe, nevertheless, that if they will ask themselves truthfully whether they find it unpleasant to dwell thus on their sorrow, they will be compelled to answer No.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emereo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126603890928,"sku":"9781486418848","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781486418848_p0.jpg?v=1763634762","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781486418848","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}