Jerome K. Jerome (1859 – 1927)
Last Updated on August 22, 2021
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Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer, best known for Three Men in a Boat.
Three Men in a Boat was Jerome’s biggest success. He wrote the novel after taking his honeymoon on a small boat on the Thames. While he wrote for the rest of his life, he never was able to write anything else as popular as Three Men in a Boat.
Novels by Jerome K. Jerome
- Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889)
- Diary of a Pilgrimage (and Six Essays) (1891)
- Weeds: A Story in Seven Chapters (1892)
- Novel Notes (1893)
- Three Men on the Bummel (a.k.a. Three Men on Wheels) (1900)
- Paul Kelver, a novel (1902)
- Tea-table Talk (1903)
- Tommy and Co (1904)
- They and I (1909)
- All Roads Lead to Calvary (1919)
- Anthony John (1923)
Collections
- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
- Told After Supper (1891)
- John Ingerfield: And Other Stories (1894)
- Sketches in Lavender, Blue, and Green (1895)
- Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1898)
- The Observations of Henry (1901)
- The Angel and the Author – and Others (1904) (20 essays)
- American Wives – and Others (1904) (25 essays, comprising 5 from The Angel and the Author, and 20 from Idle Ideas in 1905)
- Idle Ideas in 1905 (1905)
- The Passing of the Third Floor Back: And Other Stories (1907)
- Malvina of Brittany (1916)
- A miscellany of sense and nonsense from the writings of Jerome K. Jerome. Selected by the author with many apologies, with forty-three illustrations by Will Owen. 1924
- Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (1974)
- After Supper Ghost Stories: And Other Tales (1985)
- A Bicycle in Good Repair
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