Fanny and the Servant Problem - Softcover

Jerome, Jerome K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473316634 ISBN 13: 9781473316638

Verlag: Read & Co. Classics, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

When a sweeping, glamorous music-hall star secretly marries a high-society lord, she expects a life of luxury...until she meets the butler.

When Fanny, a popular stage actress, marries into the aristocracy and arrives at her husband’s grand country estate, she is ready to embrace her new role as a lady of leisure, but her world is instantly shattered when she discovers a terrifying secret.

The massive, highly disciplined household staff running the estate is entirely made up of her own eccentric, working-class relatives! Led by her fiercely proper uncle - who happens to be the head butler - the servants are determined to force Fanny to act like a "proper lady," using their knowledge of her humble past to hilariously blackmail her into submission behind closed doors.

Jerome K. Jerome serves up a riotous, sharp-witted "upstairs, downstairs" comedy of manners that brilliantly skewers British class snobbery and social pretension. Packed with rapid-fire dialogue, hilarious class friction, and wonderful theatrical flair, Fanny and the Servant Problem is a theatrical comedy masterpiece.

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Jerome K. Jerome was an English author and comedian who lived from 2 May 1859 to 14 June 1927. His humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat is his most well-known work (1889). Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, a collection of essays, is among the other works (1886-1927). The fourth child of Jerome Jones and Clapp, an ironmonger and lay preacher, was Jerome Clapp. Due to poor investments made in the local mining business, the family became impoverished. Jerome wanted to enter politics or become a man of letters, but he struggled to make ends meet. He tried his hand at acting in 1877 under the stage name Harold Crichton after being inspired by his older sister Blandina's passion for the theatre. He wedded Georgina Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley Marris in 1888, nine days after she separated from her first husband. In June 1927, Jerome experienced a paralytic stroke and brain hemorrhage. He spent two weeks in the Northampton General Hospital before passing away. At St. Mary's Church in Ewelme, Oxfordshire, Jerome was laid to rest. "For we are laborers with God," his gravestone reads.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Read & Co. Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1473316634
• ISBN 13: 9781473316638
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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