Jerome K. Jerome

Broschiertes Buch

The Master of Mrs. Chilvers

An Improbable Comedy

Beschreibung

This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1901 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy' is a four act play by this humorous author. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, England in 1859. Both his parents died while he was in his early teens, and he was forced to quit school to support himself. In 1889, Jerome published his most successful and best-remembered work, 'Three Men in a Boat'. Featuring himself and two of his friends encountering humorous situations while floating down the Thames in a small boat, the book was an instant success, and has never been out of print. In fact, its popularity was such that the number of registered Thames boats went up fifty percent in the year following its publication.

Autor

Jerome K. Jerome was an English author and comedian who lived from 2 May 1859 to 14 June 1927. His humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat is his most well-known work (1889). Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, a collection of essays, is among the other works (1886-1927). The fourth child of Jerome Jones and Clapp, an ironmonger and lay preacher, was Jerome Clapp. Due to poor investments made in the local mining business, the family became impoverished. Jerome wanted to enter politics or become a man of letters, but he struggled to make ends meet. He tried his hand at acting in 1877 under the stage name Harold Crichton after being inspired by his older sister Blandina's passion for the theatre. He wedded Georgina Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley Marris in 1888, nine days after she separated from her first husband. In June 1927, Jerome experienced a paralytic stroke and brain hemorrhage. He spent two weeks in the Northampton General Hospital before passing away. At St. Mary's Church in Ewelme, Oxfordshire, Jerome was laid to rest. "For we are laborers with God," his gravestone reads.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: White Press
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 189g
• ISBN-13: 9781473316645
• ISBN-10: 1473316642
• Artikelnr.: 41040312