Author: Stephen Lambe Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445615746 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 179
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Jerome K Jerome's most famous book - and the River that was its star- are dissected in this beautifully illustrated, full colour book.
Author: Jerome K Jerome Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 248
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A Fun-Filled Adventure, an Expedition with a Difference! Friends are a great part of our lives. Do you have great friends who are fun-loving, free spirits, and great companions? Well, that is what Jerome our narrator had during this thrilling and fun-filled adventurous voyage with his mates. Jerome our narrator happens to be the author of this book, Three Men in a Boat. He captivates us with the comical accounts they had with his two best friends, Harris and George plus their bubbly four-legged companion Montmorency. The three health-conscious friends, one day after a long deliberation in Jerome ́s room come up with a conclusion that they all have many illnesses. According to them, the cure was to take a vacation by going on a voyage. A boat ride was the solution! In this comical adventure, the intention of the writer was to make a travel guide with a comical angle. This he did by highlighting all the historical places along Great Britain ́s River Thames from Kingston to Oxford and back. With Jerome (J) as the narrator, the three have the time of their lives during this voyage as they explore the water ways. Montmorency their beloved dog, fancies fighting and hanging out with a pack of street dogs. According to the author, he was a much-needed companion for an Englishman, in this context he is a fictional dog. The author further gives the following in great details: J does the packing as Harris and George look on lazily. Meet Montmorency, the loyal guardian. Harris ́s minor incident. The cold rains! Dodging the steamers, mad fun! A suicide incident by drowning. Author ́s Biography Jerome Klapka Jerome was born on 2nd May, 1859. He is the comic masterpiece author of the Three Men in a Boat. It was first published in 1889. Jerome passed on on 14th June, 1927.
Author: Jerome K. Jerome Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1783196882 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 85
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First published in 1889 Jerome K. Jerome's classic tale of boating misadventure has become the quintessential example of the charm and wit of Victorian England. In an attempt to escape the stresses of city life three friends J, Harris and George plus their faithful canine companion Montmorency decide to take a boating jaunt between Kingston and Oxford. However a trip intended to relax and rejuvenate quickly becomes a journey of unquenchable comedy, with death-defying battles with swans, culinary disasters and contrary tea kettles just a few of the challenges facing the trio along the way.
Author: John Llewellyn Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1788038401 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 200
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Ninety years after the death of its author, Jerome K Jerome’s ever popular Three Men in a Boat is taken down from the shelf and the dust blown from its pages to reveal surprising facts and stories hidden in its familiar text.
Author: Jerome K. Jerome Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1473373239 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 11
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This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1893 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Dancing Partner' is a short story about the scarcity of young men as dancing dancing partners and a creepy solution offered by a mechanical toy maker. 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.
Author: Jerome K. Jerome Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191611328 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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`Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat). Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s, where the fashionable steam-launches of river swells encounter the hired skiffs of city clerks. The medley of social vignettes, farcical incidents, descriptions of river fashions, and reflections on the Thames's history, is interspersed with humorous anecdotes told by a natural raconteur. Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade, a break from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later; their cycling tour in the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze, affords Jerome the opportunity for a light-hearted scrutiny of German social customs at a time of increasing general interest in a country that he loved. This account of middle-aged Englishmen abroad is spiced with typical Jeromian humour. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: Tom Chesshyre Publisher: Summersdale ISBN: 1786858193 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 334
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Authors, artists and amblers have always felt the pull of the Thames, and now Tom Chesshyre is following in their footsteps. He’s walking more than 200 miles from the Cotswolds to the North Sea. Seeing some familiar sights through new eyes, Chesshyre explores the living present and remarkable past of England’s longest and most iconic river.
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