Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,...

In this article: Three Men in a Boat, Dog, River Thames, Connie Willis, and To Say Nothing of the Dog

...supported by an even bigger turtle which is swimming through space, the books owe more to writers like Mark Twain and Jerome K Jerome than they do to conventional sci-fi. 'I remember I got rather fed up with all the imitation Tolkien...

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...that are judged to be below standard are the Thames between Kingston and Oxford that appears in Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome and the Severn that inspired Spencer's Fairy Queen. Ralph Underhill, of the Royal Society for the...

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...an alcoholic door-to-door vegetable salesman. After Osmondthorpe Council School, where a master inspired him to read PG Wodehouse, Jerome K Jerome and Mark Twain, Keith took a course in typing and shorthand. He then found a job with an...

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...realize they've been growing in your mouth, reeking like that, for months. Chicago, IL: Another wonderfully funny book is Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men In A Bot (To Say Nothing Of The Dog)", though it might not be to everyone's taste. I...

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...though without the stammer. Three Men in a Boat - directed for the BBC by Stephen Frears and adapted by Tom Stoppard from Jerome K Jerome's comic best-seller of 1889 - was broadcast in 1975, just as Palin was establishing his...

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...since he notes that "writers don't go to work." In grappling with this uncomfortable admission, he risks comparison with Jerome K. Jerome, who once declared: "I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." If this...

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...from here My friend P resides by the Thames near Hurley, Oxfordshire, in an attempt to live in a permanent state of Jerome K. Jerome. I was hoping to meet perhaps a Russian gangster's moll, or at least a software squillionaire - the only...

In this article: Hurley, Tea, Derek Randall, Green Bay Packers, Oxfordshire, Thames, and London

...essay in style, he identifies the texts - Homer, Milton, the Romantic poets, Ruskin, Gilbert and Sullivan, Jerome K. Jerome, Conan Doyle - which he detects lying behind Grahame's prose. Less persuasive is his contention that the chapter in...

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...Press Association site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. A uniform worn by Walsall author Jerome K Jerome during the First World War has gone on display in his home town. The outfit, worn by the...

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