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Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859–June 14, 1927) was an English author, best known for the humourous travelog Three Men in a Boat.
He was innate inside Walsall (now in the West Midlands, but then around Staffordshire), where there exists at present the museum inside his honour, & brought higher witharound impoverishment in London.
More works include a essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to 3 Men within the Boat; & many more novels.
One of a best known quotations from either 3 Men inside the Boat is
"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
Bibliography
Novels
A Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Three Men in a Boat (1889)
''the Diary of a Pilgrim's journey (1891)
Novel Notes (1893)
A 2nd Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1898)
Three Men on the Bummel (aka Three Men in Wheels) (1900)
Paul Kelver, the novel (1902)
Tommy & Co (1904)
It & We (1909)
A lot Roads Lead to Calvary (1919)
Anthony John (1923)
A Love of Ulrich Nebendahl (1999)
A Philosopher's Joke (1999)
Collections
Told Fallowing Supper (1891)
John Ingerfield: & More Stories (1894)
Sketches around Lavender, Blue & Green (1895)
A Observations of Henry (1901)
A Angel & andy skinner & Others (1904)
Our contries Married woman & Others (1904)
A Passing of the Third Floor Back: & More Stories (1907)
Malvina of Brittany (1916)
3 Men inside the Boat & 3 Men on the Bummel (1974)
Fallowing Supper Ghost Stories: & More Tales (1985)
Non fiction
Our Life & Days (1926)
Anthologies containing stories by Jerome K. Jerome
Dandy Short Stories of Detection, Mystery & Horror First Series (1928)
A Gigantic Book of Thrillers, Ghosts & Mysteries (1936)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957)
Noted Monster Tales (1967)
A Fifth Fontana Book of Dandy Ghost Stories (1969)
A Competition of Frankenstein (1975)
A Seventeenth Fontana Book of Outstanding Ghost Stories (1981)
Stories in the Dark (1984)
Gaslit Nightmares (1988)
Horror Stories (1988)
Centred Petite Tales of Terror (1996)
Knights of Madness: More Comical Tales of Fantasy (1998)
Century Uproarious Little Howlers (1999)
Short stories
A Haunted Mill (1891)
A Freshly Utopia (1891)
A Dancing Partner (1893)
Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber
Silhouettes
A Skeleton
A Snake
A Woman of the Saeter''
Trivia
There is a French Graphic Novel series named [http://www.jeromekjeromebloche.com/ Jerome K. Jerome Bloche] when andy skinner.
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