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Fanny and the Servant Problem - Softcover

Jerome, Jerome K.

 
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Synopsis

When a sweeping, glamorous music-hall star secretly marries a high-society lord, she expects a life of luxury...until she meets the butler.

When Fanny, a popular stage actress, marries into the aristocracy and arrives at her husband’s grand country estate, she is ready to embrace her new role as a lady of leisure, but her world is instantly shattered when she discovers a terrifying secret.

The massive, highly disciplined household staff running the estate is entirely made up of her own eccentric, working-class relatives! Led by her fiercely proper uncle - who happens to be the head butler - the servants are determined to force Fanny to act like a "proper lady," using their knowledge of her humble past to hilariously blackmail her into submission behind closed doors.

Jerome K. Jerome serves up a riotous, sharp-witted "upstairs, downstairs" comedy of manners that brilliantly skewers British class snobbery and social pretension. Packed with rapid-fire dialogue, hilarious class friction, and wonderful theatrical flair, Fanny and the Servant Problem is a theatrical comedy masterpiece.

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About the Author

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, 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.Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He was the fourth child of Marguerite Jones and Jerome Clapp (who later renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher who dabbled in architecture.

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