Jerome K Jerome

Novel Notes Jerome K Jerome

"'Cats, ' remarked Jephson to me, one afternoon, as we sat in the punt discussing the plot of our novel, 'cats are animals for whom I entertain a very great respect. Cats and Nonconformists seem to me the only things in this world possessed of a practicable working conscience. Watch a cat doing something mean and wrong-if ever one gives you the chance; notice how anxious she is that nobody should see her doing it; and how prompt, if detected, to pretend that she was not doing it-that she was not even thinking of doing it-that, as a matter of fact, she was just about to do something else, quite different. You might almost think they had a soul.'" The narrator and three friends gather on a houseboat in their belief that collectively they have a novel in them. "Novel Notes" (1893) is a hilarious classic by Jerome K. Jerome, whose comic masterpiece "Three Men in a Boat" established him as a leading English humorist.