Literary Birthday
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859-1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat. He founded the co-weekly Today and in 1892 he founded and co-edited The Idler. Jerome was well-connected in literary society and with witty contributors such as Mark Twain, Luke Sharpe, Rudyard Kipling, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle it was a success.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on Jerome himself and two real-life friends. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional. But even without that dog, chaos and mayhem reign supreme.
Jerome K Jerome Quotes
It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
Love is like the measles: we all have to go through it.
That’s Harris all over – so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.
Bormotova N.E., English teacher