We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

During these last years Jerome spent more time at his farmhouse in Ewelme near Wallingford. Chilvers: an improbable comedy imagined by Jerome K. While reintroducing the same characters in the setting of a foreign bicycle tour the book was nonetheless unable to capture the life-force and historic roots of its predecessor and it enjoyed only a mild success.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).