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The Angel and the Author, and Others
By Jerome K. Jerome
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About this audiobook
In a series of brilliantly structured comedic essays, an author attempts to justify his life and writings to a recording angel tabulating his sins and virtues. This framing device launches a witty exploration of human nature, societal hypocrisy, and the often ridiculous realities of everyday life. The observations pivot seamlessly from profound philosophical musings to laugh-out-loud critiques of modern inconveniences. It is a sparkling, intelligent collection that showcases a masterful command of irony and observational humor.
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GenreHumor, Other, Politics and Government
Length5 hrs
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I
64And, finally, because I don’t believe he’s true.
2The Author tells of his Good Deeds.
65CHAPTER XIII
3The Angel appears to have made a slight Mistake.
66How to be Healthy and Unhappy.
4The Author is troubled concerning his Investments.
67The unsympathetic Umbrella.
5And questions a Man of Thought.
68A Martyr to Health.
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6CHAPTER II
69He was never pig-headed.
7Philosophy and the Dæmon.
70Only just in time.
8When the Dæmon will not work.
71How to avoid Everything.
9CHAPTER III
72The one Cure-All.
10Literature and the Middle Classes.
73CHAPTER XIV
11May a man of intelligence live, say, in Surbiton?
74Europe and the bright American Girl.
12CHAPTER IV
75She has the Art of Listening.
13Man and his Master.
76The Republican Idea in practice.
14Why the Man in Uniform has, generally, sad Eyes.
77What the Soldier dared not do.
15The Traveller’s one Friend.
78Her path of Usefulness.
16The disadvantage of being an unknown Person.
79CHAPTER XV
17CHAPTER V
80Music and the Savage.
18If only we had not lost our Tails!
81Recreation for the Higher clergy.
19And little Boys would always tell the Truth!
82Why are we so young?
20And everyone obtained his just Deserts!
83Where Brotherly (and Sisterly) Love reigns supreme.
21And only people would do Parlour Tricks who do them well!
84The one sure Joke.
22And all the World had Sense!
85How Anarchists are made.
23CHAPTER VI
86CHAPTER XVI
24Fire and the Foreigner.
87The Ghost and the Blind Children.
25My British Stupidity.
88Why not, occasionally, a cheerful Ghost.
26I am considered Cold and Mad.
89Where are the dead Humorists?
27Sometimes I wish I were an American Woman.
90The Spirit does not shine as a Conversationalist.
28CHAPTER VII
91She is now a Believer.
29Too much Postcard.
92How does he do it?
30The Postcard as a Family Curse.
93Blind Children playing in a World of Darkness.
31The Artist’s Dream.
94CHAPTER XVII
32Why not the Eternal Male for a change?
95Parents and their Teachers.
33How Women are ruined by Art.
96Their first attempt.
34Difficulty of living up to the Poster.
97The Parent can do no right.
35CHAPTER VIII
98His foolish talk.
36The Lady and the Problem.
99The Child of Fiction.
37The Stage Hero who, for once, had Justice done to him.
100The misunderstood Father.
38She has a way of mislaying her Husband.
101CHAPTER XVIII
39What is a Lady to do with a Husband when she has finished with him?
102Marriage and the Joke of it.
40Could she—herself—have been to blame?
103Love and the Satyr.
41CHAPTER IX
104What the Gipsy did not mention.
42Civilization and the Unemployed.
105A few rules for Married Happiness.
43Early instances of “Dumping.”
106The real Darby and Joan.
44Cricket, as viewed from the fixed Stars.
107Many ways of Love.
45The Heir of all Ages. His Inheritance.
108Which is it?
46Is it “Playing the Game?”
109CHAPTER XIX
47CHAPTER X
110Man and his Tailor.
48Patience and the Waiter.
111The difficulty of being a Gentleman.
49Waiterkind in the making.
112How we might, all of us, be Gentlemen.
50His Little Mistakes.
113Things a Gentleman should never do.
51How to insult him.
114How one may know the perfect Gentleman.
52CHAPTER XI
115Why not an Exhibition of Gentlemen?
53The everlasting Newness of Woman.
116CHAPTER XX
54Doctor says she is not to be bothered.
117Woman and her behaviour.
55That “Higher Life.”
118Woman’s God.
56Is there anything left for her to learn?
119Those unsexed Creatures.
57When they have tried it the other way round.
120References given—and required.
58A brutal suggestion.
121The ideal World.
59CHAPTER XII
122A Lover’s View.
60Why I hate Heroes.
123No time to think of Husbands.
61Because it always seems to be his Day.
124The Wife of the Future.
62Because he always “gets there,” without any trouble.
125IMPRINT | DISCLAIMER
63Because he’s so damned clever.
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