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Jerome K. Jerome is a well-known English writer. His reputation is based mainly on 'Three Men in a Boat'. He was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, on May 2, 1859. He was the fourth child of Jerome Clapp Jerome. He had two sisters and one brother who died at an early age. He studied in Marylebone (Day) Grammar School. At the age of 13, he lost his father and two years later, he lost his mother. After the death of his parents, he took up the job of a railway clerk and served the Railways for four years. In 1877, he tried his hand at acting and joined a troupe that produced play on a shoestring budget. He was penniless at that time. He had no money to buy costumers. After three years, he tried to become a journalist, writing essays, satires and short stories, but most of those were rejected.
His first publication was 'Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow'. On June 21, 1888, he married Georgina Henrietta Stanley nine days after she had divorced her first husband.
Jerome wrote 'Three Men in a Boat' as soon as the couple returned from their honeymoon. The book, published in 1889, because an instant success of 'Three Men in a Boat'. In 1892, he because the editor of 'The Idler'. In 1902, he published the novel 'Paul Kelver' which is widely regarded as autobiographical.
In 1926, Jerome published his autobiography 'My Life and Times'. In June 1927, Jerome suffered a paralytic stroke. He lay in hospital for two weeks before his death on June 14. He was cremated at Golden Green and his ashes were buried at St. Mary's Church, Oxfordshire.
His 'Three Men in a Boat', is a humorous account by the author of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Three Friend: George, Harris and the Narrator were friends. They thought they were seriously ill. George and Harris thought he suffered from fits of giddiness. But the narrator was sure that he suffered from some liver disease. One day he went to the British Museum. There he consulted a medical dictionary and went through the diseases, listed alphabetically.
