The Other Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome Klapka Jerome

History Press, 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 160 pages

Nowadays Jerome K. Jerome is mainly known for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat. But he was very much more than a one-book wonder, writing plays, essays, short stories, sketches, and other novels. The Other Jerome K Jerome is, in effect, a Jerome reader, providing a carefully chosen selection from his other works demonstrative of the variety and brilliance of his writing. Including excepts from On the Stage--and Off, The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and Diary of a Pilgrimage, among others, and with an introduction by Martin Green, this is an ideal companion for fans of Three Men in a Boat who want to find out more about its author's other works.

Contents

• Introduction: 7
• Became an Actor: 24
• Variety Patter: 43

About the author

Jerome K. Jerome was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England on May 2, 1859. He grew up in London and had to leave school at the age of 14 because of his parents' death. Afterwards, he worked as a clerk, an actor, a journalist, and a school teacher. In 1885, he published his first book On the Stage - and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-Be Actor. This was followed by numerous plays, books, and magazine articles including Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men in a Boat, and Three Men on the Bummel. He founded the weekly magazine To-Day in 1893 and edited it and a monthly magazine called The Idler until 1898. He also worked as a lecturer. During World War I, he enlisted in the French army as an ambulance driver because he was rejected for active service in his own country. He published his autobiography My Life and Times in 1926. He suffered a paralytic stroke and a cerebral hemorrhage and died on June 14, 1927. Martin Green was born in Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom on July 10, 1932. In 1951, he co-founded the literary magazine Nimbus with Tristram Hull. In the 1960s, he was an editor at MacGibbon and Kee. He was a writer and poet. His works include Guide to London Pubs written with Tony White, A Year in the Drink, and the long poem, Gandesa: Elegy for the Dead in Spain 1936-1939, which was published as a pamphlet in 1986. He died on February 4, 2015 at the age of 82.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Other Jerome K. Jerome; Nonsuch Series
• Author: Jerome Klapka Jerome
• Editor: Martin Green
• Contributor: Martin Green
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: History Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1845886356, 9781845886356
• Length: 160 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Humor