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Best known as the author of Three Men in a
Boat, Jerome K. Jerome was born in Walsall,
Staffordshire, on 2 May, 1859. Youngest of four
children, he spent his childhood in relative
poverty. He left his school at the age of
fourteen before working variously as a clerk, a
hack journalist, an actor and a schoolteacher.
His first book, On the Stage and Off was
published in 1885, and this was followed by
numerous plays, books and magazine articles. In
1927, one year after writing his autobiography,
My Life and Times, he was made a Freeman
of the Borough of Walsall. He died later the
same year and was buried in Ewelme in
Oxfordshire.
Here are three men seeking a break from what
they believe is a hard, painful life. And since
they are extremely allergic to work (of any kind
or degree), they look forward to an idyllic,
workless, boating holiday on the Thames. So off
they go with Montmorency, the brave dog who’s
scared of cats, but things fall apart in the
most hilarious ways possible.
One of the most well-loved books of all time, it
has had generations of readers in splits, page
after page!
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