Other books in the Jerome style?

[Lupin]

I know I may be asking for the Holy Grail but can anyone recommend any other comic novels in the Jerome fashion? There's Grossmith's Diary of course, and Bowman's Ascent of Rum Doodle (a sort of mountaineering Three men) but any other good ones?

[jesthepres]

How about Bunce, the Bobby and the Broads by Fritz Zorn (not anything like as amusing as JKJ but same period).

Much better are Augustus Carp Esq by Himself (1924) and best of all the forgotten (and out of print) The Fast Gentleman by Keble Howard (1928) which is a work of comic genius.
But I've never come across any novel from the 1880s/ 1900s as funny as Jerome. Has anyone else?

[sean wiles]

How about this one, The Wheels of Change, by H G Wells  1896  I have only read the first chapter so far, but its one of the few books that had me chuckling to myself in the same way that Jeromes humour does. In fact a sure measure of its success is when my wife turns over and says" for goodness sake turn the light out and stop that silly giggling..."
Give it a try.

[Ashmole]

W.W.Jacobs was, as we all know, discovered and befriended by Jerome. Nowadays he is generally remembered for the macabre, "The Monkey's Paw", but wrote volumes of humorous short stories. Most of these tales involve the misadventures of seafaring men and the various scrapes that they get into. My particular favourite Jacob's stories are those based in the fictional village of Claybury. They always begin in The Cauliflower public house, as the village elder attempts to scrounge a pint of ale or a screw of baccy from an unsuspecting traveller. The incorrigible ancient then narrates the tale that introduces us to the numerous scoundrels that populate the tiny hamlet.
Well I enjoy them...

[sean wiles]

Thanks Moley, I will go out tomorow and hunt one down, In the current financial climate I could do with a laugh.

Oh, as a general aside, the Thames Vintage Boat Club have an article in their latest issue of "Boater" about Monks Corner, one of Jeromes houses in Marlow , which I believe is currently for sale.

[jesthepres]

Sean, if you joined the Society you would by now have a copy of the latest Idle Thoughts. On pp 43-44 we have reproduced the estate agent's sales flyer for Monk's Corner complete with two colour photos of the magnificent interior. Value for money, or what? (I mean the price of the subscription, not the exorbitant price of Jerome's erstwhile abode.)