Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)
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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 mostra altro - 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. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Reading & Training : Jerome K. Jerome : Three men in a boat [book + sound recording] (2002) — Writer — 12 copie
Anthony John 4 copie
Robina in Search of a Husband 3 copie
Barbara: A Play in One Act 3 copie
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) (Longmans' Simplified English Series) (1948) 3 copie
Трое в одной лодке / Рассказы 2 copie
Pagine umoristiche 2 copie
SOS Title Unknown 1 copia
SOS Title Unknown 1 copia
Three Men in a Boat 1964 1 copia
Latin Bible: Nova Vulgata 1 copia
Ghost Stories 1 copia
Tři muži na toulkách 1 copia
The Idler Magazine 1892-3 1 copia
A Pathetic Story 1 copia
A Ghost Story 1 copia
Trois hommes dans un bateau 1 copia
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889) by: Jerome K. Jerome (Comedy NOVEL ) (2017) 1 copia
The Idler Magazine, Vol. 3 (III) 1 copia
Three Men in a Boat | Three Men on the Bummel | Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome (2013) 1 copia
The Woman of the Sæter 1 copia
The Snake 1 copia
The Skeleton 1 copia
Sunset 1 copia
Idle Thoughts on Ireland — Autore — 1 copia
Jerome K. Jerome (Jerome Clapp) 1 copia
Jerome K. Jerome Collection, Vol 1: Three Men in a Boat, Three Men on the Bummel, Tea-Table Talk (2018) 1 copia
Should Women be Beautiful? 1 copia
The Dancing Partner [and] Clocks 1 copia
Storia di un romanzo 1 copia
Three Men in a Boat - Complete with all the Illustrations from the Original 1889 Edition (Illustrated) (Reader's… (2022) 1 copia
La sua serata libera 1 copia
Three Men in a Boat with Answer 1 copia
Great Works of Jerome K. Jerome 1 copia
Roman-Studien 1 copia
Class IX: Three Men in a Boat 1 copia
Jerome K. Jerome Collection: Three Men In A Boat, Three Men In The Bummel, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (2020) 1 copia
On Being Idle 1 copia
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957) — Collaboratore — 161 copie
Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction (2016) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
The Second Christmas Megapack: 29 Modern and Classic Christmas Stories (2012) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Duchy Nocy Wigilijnej 1 copia
Duchy Zimowej Nocy 1 copia
Ghost Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Jerome, Jerome Klapka
- Data di nascita
- 1859-05-02
- Data di morte
- 1927-06-14
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St Mary's Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England, UK (ashes)
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Caldmore, Walsall, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Northampton, East Midlands, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Luogo di residenza
- Walsall, Staffordshire, England, UK
Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK (Poplar ∙ East End)
Northampton, Northhamptonshire, England - Istruzione
- Philological School in Lisson Grove
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
humorist
playwright
actor
teacher
railway worker (mostra tutto 9)
clerk
journalist
ambulance driver (WWI) - Relazioni
- Barr, Robert (co-editor of The Idler)
- Breve biografia
- Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat, and several other novels.
Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He was the fourth child of Marguerite Jones and Jerome Clapp (who later renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher who dabbled in architecture. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and one brother, Milton, who died at an early age. Jerome was registered as Jerome Clapp Jerome, like his father's amended name, and the Klapka appears to be a later variation (after the exiled Hungarian general György Klapka). The family fell into poverty owing to bad investments in the local mining industry, and debt collectors visited often, an experience that Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times (1926).[3]
The young Jerome attended St Marylebone Grammar School. He wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of his father when Jerome was 13 and of his mother when he was 15 forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. He was employed at the London and North Western Railway, initially collecting coal that fell along the railway, and he remained there for four years.
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- Opere
- 145
- Opere correlate
- 62
- Utenti
- 11,910
- Popolarità
- #1,970
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 398
- ISBN
- 1,399
- Lingue
- 29
- Preferito da
- 54
Risate che, c’è da puntualizzare, vi farete solo se vi piace l’umorismo inglese, quel wit che alcune persone trovano irresistibile (tra le quali, manco a dirlo, ci sono anch’io), mentre altre vi guarderanno stranite e non faranno che chiedersi cosa ci si trovi di così divertente.
Se non trovate Tre uomini in barca così divertente, comunque, c’è da dire che, se non fosse stato per l’editore, sarebbe state decisamente noioso (e forse non staremmo qui a parlarne). Infatti, il buon Jerome aveva scritto una guida turistica di ciò in cui ci si può imbattere navigando sul Tamigi, ma l’editore pensò che tutte quelle informazioni storico-culturali fossero una palla e ne tagliò gran parte, regalandoci il romanzo che conosciamo oggi.
Quindi, aspiranti autori e autrici, imparate la lezione: quando un editor vi dice di tagliare, tagliate, perché di solito ha ragione. Le parti turistiche rimaste in Tre uomini in barca sono quasi unanimemente considerate quelle più noiose: non so se lo siano in sé o perché sfigurano a confronto con quelle più divertenti, ma comunque sia date retta agli editor e non liquidateli come quei coglioni che non capiscono la grandezza della mia opera. Potreste pentirvene amaramente…… (altro)