Profile of Jerome K. Jerome on Famous Like Me

Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859–June 14, 1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.

He was born in Walsall (now in the West Midlands, but then in Staffordshire), where there is now a museum in his honour, and brought up in poverty in London.

Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.

One of the most famous quotations from Three Men in a Boat is

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

Bibliography

Novels

• The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
• Three Men in a Boat (1889)
• The Diary of a Pilgrimage (1891)
• Novel Notes (1893)
• The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1898)
• Three Men on the Bummel (aka Three Men on Wheels) (1900)
• Paul Kelver, a novel (1902)
• Tommy and Co (1904)
• They and I (1909)
• All Roads Lead to Calvary (1919)
• Anthony John (1923)
• The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl (1999)
• The Philosopher's Joke (1999)

Collections

• Told After Supper (1891)
• John Ingerfield: And Other Stories (1894)
• Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green (1895)
• The Observations of Henry (1901)
• The Angel and the Author and Others (1904)
• American Wives and Others (1904)
• The Passing of the Third Floor Back: And Other Stories (1907)
• Malvina of Brittany (1916)
• Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (1974)
• After Supper Ghost Stories: And Other Tales (1985)

Non fiction

• My Life and Times (1926)

Anthologies containing stories by Jerome K. Jerome

• Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
• 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

• The Haunted Mill (1891)
• The New Utopia (1891)
• The Dancing Partner (1893)
• Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber
• Silhouettes
• The Skeleton
• The Snake
• The Woman of the Saeter

Trivia

There is a French Graphic Novel series named Jerome K. Jerome Bloche after the author.

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