Comments are moderated, and will not appear until approved. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but does help cover the cost of producing my free newsletter. If you buy a book by clicking on one of these links I receive a small commission. Some of these links are my affiliate links. Oulton I only recommend books I have read and know. Jeromeīelow the Fairy City, A Life of Jerome K. Share your thoughts in the comment area below. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, England in 1859. To learn more about him, try Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K. My Life and Times is the autobiography of this humorous author of fiction and essays.

Today there is a museum in his name in his birthplace, Walsall, in the north of England, and there is a statue of a boat, with a mosaic of the dog in London to commemorate his journey. He also wrote plays, skits, stories, essays and even a musical, but he was never able to replicate the success of the book he wrote just after returning from honeymoon. The scene when the 3 men visit the maze in Hampton Court is hilarious, and how can you not love a book in which the dog is named Montmorency? Jerome followed it up with a sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, about a cycling holiday in Germany, but that book was feeble in comparison. It is an Edwardian romp which exactly captured the mood of the era.

Jerome Klapka Jerome was a humorist and novelist who made his fame with the 1889 novel Three Men in a Boat. ‘The Story of an African Farm’ – Olive Schreiner.‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ – Muriel Spark.‘The Leopard’ – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.‘The Doll’s House’ – Katherine Mansfield.‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ – Alexandre Dumas.‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ – Thomas Hardy.‘Seven Little Australians’ – Ethel Turner.‘Little Red Riding Hood’ – The Brothers Grimm.‘Gone with the Wind’ – Margaret Mitchell.Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & Refund Policy.

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