
Jerome K. Jerome
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Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
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When a demanding lover inspires her to write, an idle woman must fake the relationship in order to complete her new book.
Idle Thoughts

Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
Three Men in a Boat

One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage - a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford - but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.
Three Men in a Boat

The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
The Passing of the Third Floor Back

Three London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
Three Men in a Boat

She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about fifty years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brutes. But love has a way of smashing such an idea. Then she went in for barefoot dancing, futurist art and other advanced notions. Well, the upshot of it was the young man took upon himself to tame her, to make her a regular girl.
Miss Hobbs

Three men want to escape their troubles with women by taking a boat tour on the Rhine river.
Drei Mann in einem Boot
Popular English author Jerome Klapka Jerome and his humorous novel Three Men in a Boat have been a success with readers of all generations since their creation. The classic story about hanging a picture inspired director Martin Frič to make a small comedy called The Picture in 1964. The viewer can still judge what it looks like when the head of a typical bourgeois family of the early twentieth century takes on the all-important task of hanging a picture.
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Malvína z Bretónska

An English nobleman falls for and marries a beautiful young chorus girl. When he brings her home to the castle to meet his family, she is horrified to learn that she is niece, aunt, and/or cousin of all twenty-three of the staff of servants.
Strictly Confidential

To a rooming house which has fallen on hard times comes The Stranger, an unknown but gentle man who is given the back room on the third floor. His arrival marks a change in the lives of all the boarders, from the girl resisting her parents' pleas that she marry the lecherous Mr. Wright, to an architect and a pianist, both of whose dreams are near destruction from their own discouragement.