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Cycling: The Craze of the Hour (The London Library): 1

Cycling: The Craze of the Hour (The London Library): 1

by JeromeK.Jerome (Author), Charles Spencer (Author), TheLondonLibrary (Author), George Herschell (Author), Barry Pain (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

Directly you are in motion you will feel quite helpless, and experience a sensation of being run away with, and it will seem as if the machine were trying to throw you off Cycling: The Craze of the Hour is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The London Library. The books in this series have been chosen to give a fascinating insight into the treasures that can be found while browsing in The London Library. Now celebrating its 175th anniversary, with over 17 miles of shelving and more than a million books, The London Library has become an unrivalled archive of the modes, manners and thoughts of each generation which has helped to form it.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 05 May 2016
ISBN 10: 1782272461
ISBN 13: 9781782272465

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Author Bio
Charles Spencer owned a shop on Old Street selling equipment for the building of gymnasia. He devoted most of his writing to the subject of cycling, and was heavily involved in the Middlesex Bicycle Club. On 17th February 1869 he rode his bicycle from Trafalgar Square in London to Brighton in just fifteen hours.

George Herschell was a specialist in diseases of the digestive organs, and led a successful life both as a practising doctor and as the writer of medical papers. In his spare time he enjoyed golf and photography. He died in 1914.

Barry Pain is best remembered for his Eliza stories; he was known during his lifetime as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories. He was an eccentric man, with such varied interests as Georgian literature, the occult and precious stones.

As well as writing this short story, Jerome K. Jerome author also wrote Three Men on the Bummel, an unsuccessful sequel to Three Men in a Boat, in which the same characters, minus the dog, go on a cycling tour through the Black Forest. He died in 1927.