It is one of the defining youth reading experiences of several generations Jerome K. Jerome Three people in a boat his humorous novel. However, most people probably did not take the time and energy to find out about the author who gave so many happy moments to his readers. Jerome K. Jerome was born on 2 May 1859 in Walsall, England. His father, the local ironmonger, Jerome Clapp could also have been a strange figure, since at one point he renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome, and he named his son Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome after the exiled Hungarian general.
Honeymoon on a small boat
Unfortunately, we do not know what captured the family’s imagination so much in Klapka, but we do know that the family was impoverished when the younger Jerome was still young, and after the early death of his father, the young man left high school and joined the local railway company in order to support himself. However, shoveling coal didn’t seem like a very promising profession for him, so he tried acting in a semi-amateur troupe, but he didn’t take the constant traveling and poverty well, so he tried many things for a few years from the age of 21, from teaching to office work.
In the meantime, he continuously wrote newspaper articles, essays and short stories, but these were largely rejected by the newspapers. The turning point came in 1888, when Jerome married her newly divorced first husband Georgina Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley Marrist, then they went on their honeymoon. With a small boat, on the Thames.
Success has found him
As soon as he got home, he started writing, replacing his wife in the story with two old friends. The following year it was published Three people in a boat, which brought him success. The novel, which is essentially humorous, but which also evokes certain episodes of the history of the regions set off by the Thames boat tour company, was seized by readers, and its popularity has been unbroken ever since: in the nearly one and a half centuries that have passed, there has never been a period when one of its new editions was not available. In the year after its publication, there was a one-and-a-half-fold jump in the number of boats registered on the Thames, and the novel contributed greatly to the river becoming a favorite destination for tourists.
A decade later, the experiences of a trip to Germany in Hungarian Three people on bicycles in his work Jerome, but it did not capture the readers as much as his attempts at more serious literature and playwriting bounced off the walls of the audience and critics. One of his works was called the work of “a tenth-rate writer” by one of his strict critics.
Jerome enlisted in the army during World War I, but was rejected because of his age, so he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the French front. He died in 1927, and in the years since then, his famous book has been adapted into films, television series, radio plays, a play, and even a musical.
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