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Jerome K. Jerome


Born
in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, The United Kingdom
May 02, 1859

Died
June 14, 1927

Genre
Classics, Comedy


Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success followed. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the River Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards. He continued to wr ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 106,177 ratings · 9,918 reviews · 874 distinct works • Similar authors
Three Men in a Boat (Three ...
3.83 avg rating — 80,481 ratings — published 1889 — 15 editions
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Three Men on the Bummel (Th...
3.77 avg rating — 6,819 ratings — published 1900 — 358 editions
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Three Men in a Boat and Thr...
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4.01 avg rating — 4,227 ratings — published 1889 — 105 editions
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fe...
3.84 avg rating — 3,270 ratings — published 1886 — 1018 editions
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Told After Supper
3.56 avg rating — 1,146 ratings — published 1891 — 2 editions
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Novel Notes
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3.79 avg rating — 622 ratings — published 1893 — 151 editions
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Diary of a Pilgrimage
3.76 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 1891 — 168 editions
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Second Thoughts of an Idle ...
3.79 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1898 — 266 editions
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Selected Short Stories From...
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Series by Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat Three Men on the Bummel
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fe... Second Thoughts of an Idle ...
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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome
tags: humor, work
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“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
tags: kisses-idleness
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“I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
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  17 votes, 5.4%

 
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