Three Men in a Boat

Informationen zum Autor Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in 1859 and was brought up in London. He started work as a railway clerk at fourteen, and later was employed as a schoolmaster, actor and journalist. He published two volumes of comic essays and in 1889 Three Men in a Boat . This was an instant success. His new-found wealth enabled him to become one of the founders of The Idler , a humorous magazine which published pieces by W W Jacobs, Bret Harte, Mark Twain and others. In 1900 he wrote a sequel, Three Men on the Bummel , which follows the adventures of the three protagonists on a walking tour through Germany. Jerome married in 1888 and had a daughter. He served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War and died in 1927. Klappentext Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889! and! with its benign escapism! authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian clerking classes! it hilariously captured the spirit of its age. Zusammenfassung Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends, George and Harris, decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a T. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian clerking classes, it hilariously captured the spirit of its age. Illustrated by A Fredericks, with an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.

Product details

• Authors: J. Jerome, Jerome K Jerome, Jerome K. Jerome
• Publisher: Collector's Library
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2005
• EAN: 9781904919520
• ISBN: 978-1-904919-52-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 102 mm x 158 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Oxford, Adventure, London, Greater London, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Oxfordshire, c 1800 to c 1900, Humour, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Father’s Day, Father?s Day, c 1890 to c 1899, The Thames, Adventure / action fiction