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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome
Photograph of Jerome published in the 1890s
Born
Jerome Clapp Jerome
2 May 1859
Caldmore, Walsall, England
Died
14 June 1927 (aged 68)
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Resting place
St Mary's Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire
Occupation
Author, playwright, editor
Genre
Humour
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 Walsall,
England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered
from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various
occupations. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success
followed. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on
the Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards. He continued to
write fiction, non-fiction and plays over the next few decades, though never with
the same level of success.
Early life
Jerome was born at Belsize House, 1 Caldmore Road, 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). At the age of two Jerome moved with his parents
to Stourbridge, Worcestershire, then later to East London.
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.
Bibliography
Novels
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889)
 Diary of a Pilgrimage (and Six Essays) (1891)
 Weeds: A Story in Seven Chapters (1892)
 Novel Notes (1893)
 Three Men on the Bummel (a.k.a. Three Men on Wheels) (1900)
 Paul Kelver, a novel (1902)
 Tea-table Talk (1903)
 Tommy and Co (1904)
 They and I (1909)
 All Roads Lead to Calvary (1919)
 Anthony John (1923)
Collections
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Told After Supper (1891)
John Ingerfield: And Other Stories (1894)
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Sketches in Lavender, Blue, and Green (1895)
 Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1898)
 The Observations of Henry (1901)
 The Angel and the Author – and Others (1904) (20 essays)
 American Wives – and Others (1904) (25 essays, comprising 5 from The
Angel and the Author, and 20 from Idle Ideas in 1905).
 Idle Ideas in 1905 (1905)
 The Passing of the Third Floor Back: And Other Stories (1907)
 Malvina of Brittany (1916)
 A miscellany of sense and nonsense from the writings of Jerome K.
Jerome. Selected by the author with many apologies, with forty-three
illustrations by Will Owen. 1924
 Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (1974)
 After Supper Ghost Stories: And Other Tales (1985)
 A Bicycle in Good Repair
Autobiography
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On the Stage—and Off (1885)
 My Life and Times (1926)
Anthologies containing stories by Jerome K. Jerome
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Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
 A Century of Humour (1934)
 The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957)
 Famous Monster Tales (1967)
 The 5th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1969)
 The Rivals of Frankenstein (1975)
 The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981)
 Stories in the Dark (1984)
 Gaslit Nightmares (1988)
 Horror Stories (1988)
 100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
 Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998)
 100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)
Short stories
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The Haunted Mill (1891)
The New Utopia (1891)
The Dancing Partner (1893)
Evergreens
Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber
Silhouettes
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The Skeleton
The Snake
The Woman of the Saeter
The Philosopher's Joke (1909)
The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl (1909)
Plays
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Pity is Akin to Love (1888)
New Lamps for Old (1890)
The Maister of Wood Barrow: play in three acts (1890)
What Women Will Do (1890)
Birth and Breeding (1890) – based on Die Ehre, produced in New York
in 1895 as "Honour"
The Rise of Dick Halward (1895), produced in New York the previous
year as "The Way to Win a Woman"
"The Prude's Progress" (1895) co-written with Eden Phillpotts
The MacHaggis (1897)
John Ingerfield (1899)
The Night of 14 Feb.. 1899: a play in nine scenes
Miss Hobbs: a comedy in four acts (1902) – starring Evelyn Millard
Tommy (1906)
Sylvia of the Letters (1907)
Fanny and the Servant Problem, a quite possible play in four acts (1909)
The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: an improbable comedy, imagined by
Jerome K. Jerome (1911)
Esther Castways (1913)
The Great Gamble (1914)
The Three Patriots (1915)
The Soul Of Nicholas Snyders : A Mystery Play in Three Acts (1925)
The Celebrity: a play in three acts (1926)
Robina's Web ("The Dovecote", or "The grey feather"): a farce in four
acts
The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1908) (the basis of a 1918 film and
a 1935 film)
The Night of Feb. 14th 1899 – never produced
A Russian Vagabond – never produced
1.Paraphrase the following sentence using the word combinations and phrases.
It turned out to be quite late when at last we made ourselves comfortable.
a. By the time we finally settled in, it was already quite late.
b. It turned out to be quite late when at last we got settled.
c. It was late when we settled down.
d. We didn't sit down but it was late.
2. Translate the following sentence into English using the word combinations and
phrases:Менің бөлмем сенікімен бірдей, бірақ кішірек көрінеді.
a. My room is bigger than yours but for some reason it seems smaller.
b. My room is bigger than yours but for some reason it looks the same.
c. My room is the size of yours size as yours, but somehow it looks smaller.
d. My room is bigger than yours but for some reason it looks the same.
3.Find the correct translation: остаток вечера
a. early in the evening
b. part of the evening
c. end of the evening
d. the rest of the evening
4.Find the synonym of this word:to be on the safe side
a. be careful
b. avoid the risk
c. just in case
d. chance money
5.Find the wrong meaning among these words:to add something to something
a. join to smth
b. put in
c. mix
d. to combine
e. pick up