The Man of Science is a 1892 short story by English author and playwrite, Jerome K Jerome. The tale begins with this paragraph:
I met a man in the Strand one day that I knew very well, as I thought, though I had not seen him for years. We walked together to Charing Cross, and there we shook hands and parted. Next morning, I spoke of this meeting to a mutual friend, and then I learnt, for the first time, that the man had died six months before.It is very similar to Graham Greenes's first idea for what would become The Third Man:
I had paid my last farewell to Harry a week ago, when his coffin was lowered into the frozen February ground, so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by, without a sign of recognition, among the host of strangers in the Strand.- AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1892/09/00 | Jerome K Jerome | Author | "The Man of Science" is published in the September issue of the magazine The Idler as part of the serial Novel Notes. |
| Particulars for The Man of Science (short story): | |||
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| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Supernatural | Ghost | an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Art Type | Short Story | short form narrative fiction | |
| Paranormal | Supernatural | manifestation or event attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature | |
| Literary Attribute | Victorian Ghost Story | supernatural stories of mystery, atmospheric settings, but typically not horror or violent | |
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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