Jerome K. Jerome 
Clocks 

Small and very very readable, and everything one expects of the author after reading the three men adventures – although in this only the protagonist figures along with his social interactions generally as necessary. 

The chief interaction is with the clocks in general and a large grandfather clock in particular, which was bought because the wife admired one bought by a friend of the husband and wished they could have one – and who has not experienced this, having seen a beautiful clock in someone’s home, remembering one that actually did belong to one’s grandfather (but one was too young then and not stable enough to have a home to house such a clock, so he did not leave it for one to inherit after all!) – so one connects with this immediately, even in this era of various far more advanced clocks – digital clocks and watches, computers and laptops and phones, almost everything everywhere with its own clock and that too either atomic or gps or better, with possibilities of two or more clocks display according to one’s needs or fancy. 

Still, one hankers after such clocks for home, a large grandfather clock and – if one has seen them – a cuckoo clock too if one can have them. And then one reads this, and one’s tiredness of work vanishes and one laughs out loud never mind how late one lay oneself in bed and expected to read only a page before falling asleep. One cannot put this one down and is sorry he did not write more about his fights and coming to understandings with his other clocks.