![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He left school at fourteen to become a railway clerk, the first in a long line of jobs that included actor, teacher and journalist. Jerome (1859-1927) was born in Walstall, Staffordshire, and educated at Marylebone Grammar School. ![]() Jerome's life and times, and the changing world of Victorian England he depicts - from the rise of a new mass-culture of tabloids and bestselling novels to crazes for daytripping and bicycling. In his introduction, Jeremy Lewis examines Jerome K. 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. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin Classics. A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. ![]()
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