Jerome K. Jerome

Lebensraum (cont.) Mark: As it happens, I have just been reading Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men on the Bummel, follow-up to the late-Victorian humor classic Three Men in a Boat. "Bummel" is the German word for a stroll or jaunt, and in this...

In this article: Welfare state, Three Men on the Bummel, Three Men in a Boat, Bertrand Russell, and Germany

...Lunatic Asylum, which lay just inside the neighbouring parish of Friern Barnet. New Southgate was home to Jerome K Jerome, writer of "Three Men in a Boat". He is commemorated here with a statue of a boat on the New Southgate Millennium...

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...for boating as a leisure activity. Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, entitled Three Men on the Bummel. A similar book was published seven years...

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

...hour to Paddington. Unfortunately, the railway at Tilehurst was mentioned in less than glowing terms by Jerome K. Jerome in chapter 16 of Three Men in a Boat: "The river becomes very lovely from a little above Reading. The railway rather...

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...and thanks his father, "who is chairman of the board". Literary references to Pinafore songs include Harris's attempt to sing "When I Was a Lad" in Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. Another is found in the story "Runaround" from I, Robot...

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...water taxi service in London. By the late 19th century, when Jerome K. Jerome wrote of his up-river expedition in Three Men in a Boat, there were thousands of skiffs at places like Richmond , Kingston and Oxford. However there are references...

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...the program with 88 points. Rory was one of the Three Men in a Boat in the 2005 BBC reinterpretation of the travelogue by Jerome K. Jerome along with fellow rowers Griff Rhys Jones and Dara O Briain. He also starred in the sequels,...

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...Lock, near Maidenhead, Berkshire. This reach of the Thames was described by Jerome K. Jerome in Three Men in a Boat as "unbroken loveliness this is, perhaps, the sweetest stretch of all the river...". Bavin's Gulls consists of two large...

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...in 1886 , is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author's second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome's better works, and in spite of...

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