On a November afternoon a stranger takes the third-floor back room of a seedy Bloomsbury boarding house full of petty schemers, snobs and grumblers. He treats each lodger and the landlady as their better selves, and one by one they find themselves behaving that way, to their own bewilderment.
Jerome’s gentle parable, which he turned into a stage success, still makes a fine short Christmas-season read. Download the free EPUB.