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Jerome K. Jerome

Short biography: Jerome K. Jerome in Great Lives

About Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) was an English humorist, playwright and editor whose comic travel book Three Men in a Boat (1889) has never been out of print.

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

1889 · 19th Century · Novel

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is Jerome K. Jerome's comic account of a boating holiday on the River Thames, and it has remained in print ever since. The narrator, J., and his friends George and Harris, three young London clerks, decide that they are overworked and suffering from every disease in the medical dictionary except housemaid's knee.