Parody Stories

Three friends decide to take a boating holiday on the River Thames from Kingston to Oxford. They are accompanied by a mischievous dog.

A semi-autobiographical novel, drawing on the author's own youthful experiences at sea.

A boy's father dies before he is born, and his loving mother remarries a cruel man who mistreats the boy.

A collection of five short stories and a play that explore the complexities of human desires, illusions, and disappointments.

A humorous sequel to his earlier novel Three Men in a Boat. It follows the same three friends on another misadventure.

A social critique centered on a kind, modest young woman born and raised in Marshalsea Prison for Debt in London.

Israel Potter leaves his home in Massachusetts to fight in the American Revolutionary War. After fighting at Bunker Hill, he is captured by the British.

A satirical work where Jerome takes readers on an exploration of the clichés, stock characters, and absurdities of the 19th-century melodrama.

A wealthy dust contractor dies under suspicious circumstances just as he was about to inherit his estranged father’s fortune.

The narrator escapes from the Typee Valley and joins a whaling ship sailing through the South Seas.