The complete online text of Clocks by Jerome K. Jerome.

Jerome K. Jerome was a popular turn-of-the-century humorist. He was a born storyteller, and his works often began as anecdotes that he developed into short stories, plays, essays, or novels. He sometimes used his short stories as the initial embodiments...

The theatrical career of Jerome K. Jerome spanned fifty years in the history of the English stage, covering the field from strolling actor and "responsible" in London's East End theaters to drama critic and playwright of one of the most popular plays of...

Jerome K. Jerome was a familiar name at the turn of the nineteenth century and in the first quarter of the twentieth. He was a humorist, who, under the pose of "the Idler," made his reputation as an essayist, the editor of two magazines (the Idler, 1892-...

CLOCKS Whether it's wasted, up, passing or anticipated, time is one of those indispensable and quantifiable commodities, like money. No matter what means are used to measure its motion, it invariably comes out with the same result: there is simply never enough. The...

Worm gears and telephone dials, teacups and tack hammers -- these are just some of the found objects that Joe Callaghan uses to sculpt his witty and cheerful clocks. Most are battery-run, but they also tick, which makes them companionable and efficient. A 5-foot...

That stopwatch stops for no man. Don Hewitt, the 80-year-old executive producer, inventor, backbone and spiritual stiff upper lip of CBS’ 60 Minutes, has always been a man who valued the blunt truth. As Mr. Hewitt told Larry King on CNN last year, he preferred...

President Hugo Chavez is taking Venezuela back in time _ by 30 minutes, to be exact.His government's plan to turn back clocks by a half-hour has some Venezuelans pleased at the prospect of sleeping in. Others seem vexed that Chavez is making the entire nation...