This of course was a wild success both critically and commercially and also his creative highpoint. Shortly thereafter he married and his honeymoon on the Thames became the inspiration for Three Men In A Boat. After early stints on the railways, as an actor, a journalist, a school teacher, a writer and a solicitors clerk he had some minor success with a collection of comic memoirs On The Stage – And Off about his earlier stint as an actor. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of Jerome K Jerome.Īn early life of poverty exacerbated by the death of his parents in his early teens helped to cruelly mold the young Jerome. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. The audiobook volume of this book can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. However he was prolific at the shorter form and it is from that rich seam that these stories have been mined. Although he was now able to write full time he was never able to attain all the heights of that classic humorous novel.

After early stints on the railways, as an actor, a journalist, a school teacher, a writer and a solicitors clerk he had some minor success with a collection of comic memoirs “On The Stage – And Off” about his earlier stint as an actor. An early life of poverty exacerbated by the death of his parents in his early teens helped to cruelly mold the young Jerome. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of Jerome K Jerome.

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