The Angel and the Author - and Others

About this eBook

Author

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

Title

The Angel and the Author, and Others

Credits

Transcribed from the 1908 Hurst and Blackett edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

2368

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2368

Release Date

October 1, 2000

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ANGEL AND THE AUTHOR —AND OTHERS
2. 2.CHAPTER I — The Author tells of his Good Deeds. — The Angel appears to have made a slight Mistake. — The Author is troubled concerning his Investments. — And questions a Man of Thought.
3. 3.CHAPTER II — Philosophy and the Dæmon. — When the Dæmon will not work.
4. 4.CHAPTER III — Literature and the Middle Classes. — May a man of intelligence live, say, in Surbiton?
5. 5.CHAPTER IV — Man and his Master. — Why the Man in Uniform has, generally, sad Eyes. — The Traveller’s one Friend. — The disadvantage of being an unknown Person.
6. 6.CHAPTER V — If only we had not lost our Tails! — And little Boys would always tell the Truth! — And everyone obtained his just Deserts! — And only people would do Parlour Tricks who do them well! — And all the World had Sense!
7. 7.CHAPTER VI — Fire and the Foreigner. — My British Stupidity. — I am considered Cold and Mad. — Sometimes I wish I were an American Woman.
8. 8.CHAPTER VII — Too much Postcard. — The Postcard as a Family Curse. — The Artist’s Dream. — Why not the Eternal Male for a change? — How Women are ruined by Art. — Difficulty of living up to the Poster.
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII — The Lady and the Problem. — The Stage Hero who, for once, had Justice done to him. — She has a way of mislaying her Husband. — What is a Lady to do with a Husband when she has finished with him? — Could she—herself—have been to blame?
10. 10.CHAPTER IX — Civilization and the Unemployed. — Early instances of “Dumping.” — Cricket, as viewed from the fixed Stars. — The Heir of all Ages. His Inheritance. — Is it “Playing the Game?”
11. 11.CHAPTER X — Patience and the Waiter. — Waiterkind in the making. — His Little Mistakes. — How to insult him.
12. 12.CHAPTER XI — The everlasting Newness of Woman. — Doctor says she is not to be bothered. — That “Higher Life.” — Is there anything left for her to learn? — When they have tried it the other way round. — A brutal suggestion.
13. 13.CHAPTER XII — Why I hate Heroes. — Because it always seems to be his Day. — Because he always “gets there,” without any trouble. — Because he’s so damned clever. — And, finally, because I don’t believe he’s true.
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII — How to be Healthy and Unhappy. — The unsympathetic Umbrella. — A Martyr to Health. — He was never pig-headed. — Only just in time. — How to avoid Everything. — The one Cure-All.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIV — Europe and the bright American Girl. — She has the Art of Listening. — The Republican Idea in practice. — What the Soldier dared not do. — Her path of Usefulness.
16. 16.CHAPTER XV — Music and the Savage. — Recreation for the Higher clergy. — Why are we so young? — Where Brotherly (and Sisterly) Love reigns supreme. — The one sure Joke. — How Anarchists are made.
17. 17.CHAPTER XVI — The Ghost and the Blind Children. — Why not, occasionally, a cheerful Ghost. — Where are the dead Humorists? — The Spirit does not shine as a Conversationalist. — She is now a Believer. — How does he do it? — Blind Children playing in a World of Darkness.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVII — Parents and their Teachers. — Their first attempt. — The Parent can do no right. — His foolish talk. — The Child of Fiction. — The misunderstood Father.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII — Marriage and the Joke of it. — Love and the Satyr. — What the Gipsy did not mention. — A few rules for Married Happiness. — The real Darby and Joan. — Many ways of Love. — Which is it?
20. 20.CHAPTER XIX — Man and his Tailor. — The difficulty of being a Gentleman. — How we might, all of us, be Gentlemen. — Things a Gentleman should never do. — How one may know the perfect Gentleman. — Why not an Exhibition of Gentlemen?
21. 21.CHAPTER XX — Woman and her behaviour. — Woman’s God. — Those unsexed Creatures. — References given—and required. — The ideal World. — A Lover’s View. — No time to think of Husbands. — The Wife of the Future.

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