Paul Kelver by Jerome K. Jerome. Short summary

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The writer talks about his early life. Jerome believes that people with easy fortunes are born in June, not in May, as he himself was. According to the author, being born in that month made him a loser.

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Jerome describes events that took place in his childhood.

He believes that fortunate members of the human race are born in the first month of summer, but not in May, like he himself. In the author’s opinion, only losers are born in the aforementioned time period, which is proven by his whole life.

Little Jerome’s nanny, Mrs. Fercy, explained to him that all the negative events, in the epicenter of which he finds himself, are due to the fact that nature has endowed him with excessive restlessness. The woman added that if the future English writer has not changed his own behavior, then he expects big trouble in the future. According to the author, it was Mrs. Fercy’s words influenced his whole conscious life.

The nanny also told the child that shortly before he was born, Mrs. Jerome broke a glass. Mrs. Fercy believed in omens, so she believed that the incident made the author’s mother an unhappy woman.