On the Art of Making Up One's Mind

"It is a theory of mine — wrong possibly, indeed I have so been informed—that we pick our way through life with too much care. We are forever looking down upon the ground. Maybe we do avoid a stumble or two over a stone or a brier, but also we miss the blue of the sky, the glory of the hills."

Touching on such vital matters as The Inadvisability of Following Advice and The Disadvantage of Not Getting What One Wants, Jerome K. Jerome presents a buoyant and timeless philosophy of life.

With his characteristically charming, anecdotal style, the celebrated wit—and author of Three Men in a Boat and The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow — brings fresh energy to the everyday and expounds with humour and insight on more profound concerns.

Written twelve years after The Idle Thoughts, at a time when Jerome had firmly established himself as one of the leading literary voices of his generation, these meditations bear the mark of the mature man: reflective, droll, and always entertaining.


  1. Alle Wege führen nach Golgatha : Historischer Roman - Erster Weltkrieg

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  2. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die – Volume 2

    Jerome K Jerome, Charles Kingsley, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  3. 10 MASTERPIECES OF COMEDY : 10 Timeless Tales to Tickle Your Funny Bone – Comedy Classics Collection

    Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Edwin Abbott, Mark Twain, Jerome K Jerome, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  4. Three Men in a Boat : Jerome K. Jerome's Timeless British Comedy

    Jerome K Jerome, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  5. 100 Meisterwerke der englischen Literatur - Klassiker, die man kennen muss

    George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Katherine Mansfield, H.P. Lovecraft, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Herman Melville, Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Sinclair Lewis, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K Jerome, Washington Irving, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, Daniel Defoe, Lew Wallace, James Fenimore Cooper, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carrol, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Henry David Thoreau, G.K. Chesterton, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Margaret Mitchell, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, John Galsworthy, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling

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  6. Three Men in a Boat : An Outrageous Journey on the Thames with Laughter at Every Bend

    Jerome K Jerome, Zenith Golden Quill

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  7. Diary of a Pilgrimage

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  8. Three Men on the Bummel

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  9. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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  10. Three Men in a Boat : A Timeless British Comedy of Travel, Friendship, and Utter Nonsense

    Jerome K Jerome, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co

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  11. Trois hommes dans un bateau : sans oublier le chien

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