The Observations of Henry and Diary of a Pilgrimage

A popular turn-of-the-century humorist, Jerome K. Jerome is perhaps better known for his plays than his novels and short stories. The main character of the The Observations of Henry is a waiter who meets a variety of odd people in the coffee shop he works in, from a man whose baby is shown in a dog show to Carrot, who finds that life as a Marchioness is "just like a funeral with the corpse left out." Henry is one of the most entertaining observers of life in fiction and Jerome's gift of storytelling is obvious in The Observations of Henry.