Jerome K Jerome

The Observations of Henry Jerome K Jerome

"This is the story, among others, of Henry the waiter-or, as he now prefers to call himself, Henri-told to me in the long dining-room of the Riffel Alp Hotel, where I once stayed for a melancholy week 'between seasons, ' sharing the echoing emptiness of the place with two maiden ladies, who talked all day to one another in frightened whispers. Henry's construction I have discarded for its amateurishness; his method being generally to commence a story at the end, and then, working backwards to the beginning, wind up with the middle." "The Observations of Henry" (1901) is a classic collection of humorous stories by Jerome K. Jerome, whose comic masterpiece "Three Men in a Boat" established him as a leading English humorist.