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- The Angel and the Author - and Others, by Jerome K. Jerome
- THE ANGEL AND THE AUTHOR —AND OTHERS
- 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.
- CHAPTER II
- Philosophy and the Dæmon.
- When the Dæmon will not work.
- CHAPTER III
- Literature and the Middle Classes.
- May a man of intelligence live, say, in Surbiton?
- 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.
- 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!
- CHAPTER VI
- Fire and the Foreigner.
- My British Stupidity.
- I am considered Cold and Mad.
- Sometimes I wish I were an American Woman.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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?”
- CHAPTER X
- Patience and the Waiter.
- Waiterkind in the making.
- His Little Mistakes.
- How to insult him.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- CHAPTER XV
- Music and the Savage.
- Recreation for the Higher clergy.
- Why are we so young?
- Where Brotherly
- CHAPTER I
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