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Diary of a Pilgrimage

by Jerome K. Jerome · 1891

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While it is beyond doubt that Jerome K. Jerome is most well known for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat, the range of his other literary achievements is staggering. Journalist, playwright and author, a wealth of his writing has remained just beyond the public gaze. Diary of a Pilgrimage is one such work.

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The pilgrimage of the title is a journey to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau, which has been performed every ten years since 1634, the middle of the Thirty Years War. Diary is a typically witty account of this journey, part travelogue and part social commentary. It is also a work which has long deserved its place in the sun, outside of the benevolent shade of Jerome's more famous writing.

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humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
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VictorianVictorianMore like thisLess of this19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thisGermanyGermanyMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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