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    <namePart>Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1859-1927</namePart>
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  <abstract>"The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" by Jerome K. Jerome is a collection of humorous essays published in 1886. This work established Jerome as a leading English humorist through fourteen witty reflections on everyday topics like love, shyness, babies, weather, and memory. Written in the same style as his later famous "Three Men in a Boat," these lighthearted essays explore the comedy and absurdity of ordinary life with charm and wit, offering timeless observations on human nature and daily existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Preface -- On being idle -- On being in love -- On being in the blues -- On being hard up -- On vanity and vanities -- On getting on in the world -- On the weather -- On cats and dogs -- On being shy -- On babies -- On eating and drinking -- On furnished apartments -- On dress and deportment -- On memory.</tableOfContents>
  <note>Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle_Thoughts_of_an_Idle_Fellow</note>
  <note>Release date is 1997-03-01</note>
  <note>Produced by Ron Burkey, Amy Thomte, and David Widger</note>
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