"Told After Supper" by Jerome K. Jerome is a set of funny ghost stories from the 1800s that shares the fun of telling spooky tales with loved ones on Christmas Eve. The book is all about ghosts and other creatures from folklore, but it's also full of Jerome's jokes and mocking tone. The story starts with friends and family gathered together at Christmas, and they start telling each other ghost stories. Each tale mixes humor and sadness, showing weird ghosts and their funny interactions with people. One story involves a loyal ghost’s search and a series of funny adventures with buried treasure and strange spirits. The writing shows the bond between the storytellers, and the mix of comedy and the supernatural keeps readers interested and amused. The stories celebrate the strangeness of life and death with imaginative stories, making readers laugh while also feeling a bit scared.
Told After Supper
By Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
In a cozy Christmas setting, friends and family swap hilarious and slightly scary ghost stories, revealing more about themselves than the spirits they describe.
Summary
About the AuthorJerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success followed. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the River Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards. He continued to write fiction, non-fiction and plays over the next few decades, though never with the same level of success.
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success followed. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the River Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards. He continued to write fiction, non-fiction and plays over the next few decades, though never with the same level of success.
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