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Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.
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culture · English writer and humorist (1859–1927) · writer · journalist · humorist · playwright · autobiographer · novelist · prose writer · actor · essayist · also Jerome K. Jerome, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Jerome Klapta Jerome, Jerome
Born 2 May 1859 · Died 14 June 1927 · Q218698
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.
Died 1927-06-14.
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“Jeżeli złodziej nosi mundur, to policya powinna mu służyć pomocą w każdej chwili i zabrać do więzienia tych, co stawiają zajęciom jego jakieś przeszkody.”
Despite declining health, Jerome decided to make a long motoring tour through England; he was taken ill, and died in a hospital in Northampton on 14 June 1927, aged 68
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“Pijąc cudze zdrowie, psujemy własne.”
Twice in 1917, and in 1928 and 1929, and in New York twice in 1910 and again in 1914
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"In Chicago I was assured many years ago, by an enterprising pirate now retired, that the sales throughout the United States had exceeded a million"
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“I have written books that have appeared to me more clever, books that have appeared to me more humorous. But it is as the author of Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the Dog) that the public persists in remembering me”
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“In Chicago I was assured many years ago, by an enterprising pirate now retired, that the sales throughout the United States had exceeded a million”
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Jerome wrote, "I have written books that have appeared to me more clever, books that have appeared to me more humorous
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In a collection along with five other of his stories, "The Philosopher's Joke", "The Soul of Nicholas Snyders", "Mrs Korner Sins her Mercies", "The Cost of Kindness" and "The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl"
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“The Passing of the Third Floor Back”
That heavyweight critics began praising him
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Jerome published Three Men on the Bummel (titled Three Men on Wheels in the US)
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Jerome founded the weekly To-Day and added to his contributors the writers Richard Le Gallienne and George Gissing and the illustrators Aubrey Beardsley and Phil May
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Is a lively and, except for a few serious scenes, comic account of the Thames trip of the three friends
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And he published his most popular work, Three Men in a Boat, the following year
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Jerome had his first big seller with the book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886), a collection of humorous essays that had previously appeared in a newly founded magazine, Home Chimes, which would later serialise Thr
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The US did not sign up to it until much later, and unauthorised "pirate" American editions were issued
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Jerome tried to earn a living in various occupations including a clerical post and three years as an actor
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When Jerome was thirteen, his father died of a heart attack and the boy became the family's sole wage-earner, leaving school to become a clerk for the London and North Western Railway
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Born 1859-05-02.
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