Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of its Inhabitants

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Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of its Inhabitants (1889)
by Jerome Klapka Jerome

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First published in 1889; this transcription is of the first edition. Eight of the character sketches were previously serialized in The Playgoer, vol.1 nos.1-8, November 1888-June 1889: The Hero; The Villain; The Lawyer; The Heroine; The Adventuress; The Comic Man; The Servant Girl; The Peasants. [Based on the bibliography on the website of The Jerome K. Jerome Society (archived)]

5024269Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of its Inhabitants1889Jerome Klapka Jerome

TAGE-LAND:

Curious Habits and Customs of its Inhabitants.

Described by

JEROME K. JEROME,

Drawn by

J. BERNARD PARTRIDGE.

LONDON:

CHATTO & WINDUS, 214, PICCADILLY.

1889.

Brettell, Rupert St. W.

ΤΟ

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 LITTLE BOOK

IS LOVINGLY

DEDICATED.

List of Citizens Interviewed.

PAGE
Hero		1
Villain		9
Heroine		17
Comic Man		21
Lawyer		27
Adventuress		33
Servant Girl		41
Child		49
Comic Lovers		53
Peasants		59
Good Old Man		65
Irishman		69
Detective		73
Sailor		77

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1931.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1927, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 98 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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