Jerome K. Jerome
1859–1927
Biography
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, in the English Midlands, in 1859. His family had little money, and after his father died in the early 1870s he worked at a series of jobs, among them office work and a few years on the stage. He began writing in his twenties, first with light essays and sketches and then with longer fiction, and his reputation grew steadily.
His best-known book, Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog), appeared in 1889. It follows three friends and a dog on a boating holiday up the Thames, and its comedy comes from small disasters, long digressions and the narrator's wandering recollections. The book was an enormous popular success, though many reviewers of the day looked down on his colloquial style. Other works include the essay collection Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, the sequel Three Men on the Bummel, and the semi-autobiographical novel Paul Kelver, which brought him more serious critical attention in 1902.
Three men in a boat is the book on this site, and the catalogue also credits a translation of it to Jacint Maria Mustieles, so readers can set the English comedy beside a version in another language. It is the best way into Jerome's work, since his later books never reached the same wide readership.
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Books
Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous novel by English writer Jerome K. Jerome describing a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a…
Summary from Wikipedia: Three Men in a Boat (CC BY-SA 4.0)Tres Homes Dins D'una Barca (Sense comptar-hi el gos)
by Jerome K. Jerome (translated by Jacint Maria Mustieles)
Three idle young Londoners convinced they are overworked, and a fox terrier named Montmorency, set off on a boating holiday up the Thames. Packing, cooking, weather, locks and riverside towns each become the occasion for a disaster or a digression. A Catalan translation of…
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