Stage-Land

............ ............ Stage-Land ............ ............ Jerome K. Jerome in his element, from the word go! ............ "TO THAT HIGHLY RESPECTABLE BUT UNNECESSARILY RETIRING INDIVIDUAL, OF WHOM WE HEAR SO MUCH BUT SEE SO LITTLE, “THE EARNEST STUDENT OF THE DRAMA,” THIS (COMPARATIVELY) TRUTHFUL LITT......more

A hoot! The esteemed author of THREE MEN IN A BOAT turns his comic wit to stage melodrama, profiling everyone from the Hero, Heroine and Villain to the Stage Child, the Good Old Man, and the Lawyer. Some of the tropes have fallen out of use in the twenty-first century; others...really haven't!......more

............ ............ Stage-Land ............ ............ Jerome K. Jerome in his element, from the word go! ............ "TO THAT HIGHLY RESPECTABLE BUT UNNECESSARILY RETIRING INDIVIDUAL, OF WHOM WE HEAR SO MUCH BUT SEE SO LITTLE, “THE EARNEST STUDENT OF THE DRAMA,” THIS (COMPARATIVELY) TRUTHFUL LITT......more

............ ............ Stage-Land ............ ............ Jerome K. Jerome in his element, from the word go! ............ "TO THAT HIGHLY RESPECTABLE BUT UNNECESSARILY RETIRING INDIVIDUAL, OF WHOM WE HEAR SO MUCH BUT SEE SO LITTLE, “THE EARNEST STUDENT OF THE DRAMA,” THIS (COMPARATIVELY) TRUTHFUL LITT......more

Somehow, this works. I don't think I've laughed so much at a book since I reread Three Men in a Boat.......more