
Jerome K. Jerome is a comedic master, and he brings his ample talents to bear on this rumination on the nature of time-and clocks. This edition has been carefully designed for your reading pleasure.

A hilarious expose on the secret, malicious life of our timepieces. Jerome K. Jerome turns his unmatched observational wit onto an object we all take for granted, delivering a delightfully paranoid piece of social satire. Rather than viewing clocks...

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right-except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country...

