"This is a sensible book. I want you to understand that. This is a book to improve your mind. In this book, I tell you all about Germany – at all events all I know about Germany – and the Ober-Ammergau Passion Play. I also tell you about other things. I do not tell you all I know about all these other things because I do not want to swamp you with knowledge. I wish to teach you gradually. I should only be defeating my own object that I, by making you think too much at first, give you a perhaps lasting dislike to the exercise. I have purposely put the matter in a light and attractive form so that I may secure the alteration of the young and frivolous. I do not want them to notice as they go on, that they are being instructed; and I have therefore endeavoured to disguise from them, so far as practicable, that this is to either an exceptionally clever or an exceptionally useful work. I want to do them good without their knowing it. I want to do you all good – to improve your minds and to make you think, if I can.

What you will thank after you have read the book, I do not want to know. Indeed, I would rather not know. It will be sufficient reward for me to feel that I have done my duty and to receive a percentage on the gross sales!" – Extract from the Preface

Collection	Narrator	Length
Victorian	Peter Joyce	4 hrs 40 mins

Media	Compact Disc	Audio Tape
Media Qty	4	3
Audio Format	CD-DA	Analogue
Book Code	VI-117CD	VI-117TA
ISBN	978 1 86015 047 0	978 1 86015 467 6
Price	£13.49	£11.99

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English author born in Walsall, Staffordshire, son of a preacher. Due to bad investments his family suffered poverty and debt collectors often visited. When aged 13 the death of both parents forced him to quit studies and find employment at a railway, initially collecting coal that fell along the track. Aged 21 he tried to become a journalist, writing essays, satires and short stories, but most of these were rejected. Over the next few years he was a school teacher, a packer, and a solicitor’s clerk. Finally, in 1885, he had some success with On the Stage—and Off, a humorous book which publication had opened the door for more plays and essays. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, a collection of humorous essays, followed in 1886. In 1888, Jerome married Georgina Marris nine days after she had divorced her first husband. The honeymoon took place on the Thames, a fact which was to have a significant influence on his next, and most important work, Three Men in a Boat.

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