Three Men in a Boat [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONJerome Klapka Jerome was bom in Walsall, Staffordshire intheson of an unsuccessful ironmonger. He was brought up in London and educated at Marylebone Grammar School. He started work as a railway clerk at fourteen, and later worked as a schoolmaster, actor and journalist. He published two volumes of humorous essays before Three Men in a Boat appeared in i88g. This was enormously well received, and its success enabled him to become one of the founders of The Idler, a humorous magazine which published pieces by Bret Hart, Mark Twain, W. W.Jacobs and others. Three Men on a Bummel, which follows the same three protagonists on a walking tour through Germany, appeared in igoo. Jerome wrote a number of plays, in a similar style to those of his friend J. M. Barrie, the most memorable of which is a marality tale set in a boarding-house entitled The Passing of the Third Floor Back. He also wrote a book of reminiscences. My Life and Times (1926). Jerome married in 1888 and had a daughter. During the First World War he served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front. He died in 1^27.FURTHER READINGA. Moss, Jerome: His L^e and Works 1929W. Gutkess, Jmwwe 1930