The author tells stories of life from the perspective of an idle fellow. Plain life becomes full of vigor and vitality in the author's world. And the work reflects the social prevailing custom of the respective era with humor.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. Using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it is widely considered one of Jerome’s best works.

It is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. The essays involve the most common topics in daily life such as food and drink, weather, clothing, vanity, and love affair. They are meaningful and thought-provoking.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859—14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).

Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.

"Published in 1886, still relevant, still devilishly funny." —Tom Hodgkinson

"A little comic masterpiece." —The Independent