Книга: Jerome K. Jerome «Told After Supper»
Серия: "Top 100 Classic Books" Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist. In Told After Supper the members of a family and their guests turn to telling ghost stories after dinner. These stories get increasingly bizarre as the ghosts leap out of the tales and make an appearance in the family's home. In the mysterious story, Passing of the Third Floor Back, Christ-like stranger visits a run-down boarding home to transform the lives of its residents. Издательство: "Т8" (2018)
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Jerome K. Jerome
Infobox Writer
name = Jerome Klapka Jerome
caption = Jerome K. Jerome
birthdate = birth date|1859|5|2|mf=y
birthplace =
deathdate = death date and age|1927|06|14|1859|05|02|mf=y
deathplace =
occupation = Author
nationality = British
genre = Humour
Jerome Klapka Jerome (
Jerome was born in
Other works include the essay collections "
Early life
Jerome was the fourth child of Jerome Clapp (who later renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher who dabbled in architecture, and Marguerite Jones. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and one brother, Milton, who died at an early age. Jerome was registered, like his father's amended name, as Jerome Clapp Jerome, and the Klapka appears to be a later variation (after the exiled Hungarian general
The young Jerome wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of both his parents in 1872, when he was 13 years old, forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. He was employed at the
Acting career and early literary works
In 1877, inspired by his older sister Blandina’s love for the
"Three Men in a Boat" and later career
Jerome sat down to write "
With the financial security the sales of the book provided, Jerome was able to dedicate all of his time to writing. He wrote a number of plays, essays and novels, but was never able to recapture the success of "Three Men in a Boat". In 1892 he was chosen by Robert Barr to edit "The Idler" (over
In 1898, a short stay in Germany inspired "
World War I and last years
Jerome volunteered to serve his country at the outbreak of the war but, being 56 years old, was rejected by the
In 1926, Jerome published his autobiography, "My Life and Times". Shortly afterwards, the Borough of Walsall conferred on him the title Freeman of the Borough. In June 1927, on a motoring tour from Devon to London via Cheltenham and Northampton, Jerome suffered a paralytic
Notes
*There is a French
*George Wingrave is described in "Three Men in A Boat" as a bank clerk. Later in his career he became a senior manager in
*The route up the Thames of "Three Men in a Boat" was reproduced in a 2005
*Jerome was good friends with
*"Three Men in a Boat" is well-known in
*
Bibliography
Novels
* "
* "
* "Diary of a Pilgrimage (and Six Essays)" (1891) [http://books.google.com/books?id=8gklAAAAMAAJ (full text)]
* "Novel Notes" (1893)
* "
* "
* "Paul Kelver, a novel" (1902)
* "Tommy and Co" (1904)
* "They and I" (1909)
* "All Roads Lead to Calvary" (1919)
* "Anthony John" (1923)
* "The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl" (1909)
* "The Philosopher's Joke" (1909)
Collections
* "Told After Supper" (1891)
* "John Ingerfield: And Other Stories" (1894)
* "Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green" (1895)
* "The Observations of Henry" (1901)
* "The Angel and the Author and Others" (1904)
* "American Wives and Others" (1904)
* "The Passing of the Third Floor Back: And Other Stories" (1907)
* "Malvina of Brittany" (1916)
* "A miscellany of sense and nonsense from the writings of Jerome K. Jerome. Selected by the author with many apologies, with forty-three illustrations by Will Owen. 1924
* "Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel" (1974)
* "After Supper Ghost Stories: And Other Tales" (1985)
Autobiography
* "My Life and Times" (1926)
Anthologies containing stories by Jerome K. Jerome
* "Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series" (1928)
* "A Century of Humour" (1934)
* "The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries" (1936)
* "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1957)
* "Famous Monster Tales" (1967)
* "The 5th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories" (1969)
* "The Rivals of Frankenstein" (1975)
* "The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories" (1981)
* "Stories in the Dark" (1984)
* "Gaslit Nightmares" (1988)
* "Horror Stories" (1988)
* "100 Tiny Tales of Terror" (1996)
* "Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy" (1998)
* "100 Hilarious Little Howlers" (1999)
Short stories
* "The Haunted Mill" (1891)
* " [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:UH1OHt9jSe0J:www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/cultn/cultn014.pdf+The+New+Utopia+(jerome)&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us The New Utopia] " (1891)
* "The Dancing Partner" (1893)
* "Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber"
* "Silhouettes"
* "The Skeleton"
* "The Snake"
* "The Woman of the Saeter"
Plays
*"The Maister of Wood Barrow: play in three acts" (1890)
*"The Night of Feb. 14th. 1899: a play in nine scenes"
*"Miss Hobbs: a comedy in four acts" (1902)
*"Fanny and the Servant Problem, a quite possible play in four acts" (1909)
*"The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: an improbable comedy, imagined by Jerome K. Jerome (1911)
*"The Celebrity: a play in three acts" (1926)
*"Robina's Web ("The Dovecote," or "The grey feather"): a farce in four acts"
References
External links
*gutenberg author|id=Jerome_Klapka_Jerome|name=Jerome K. Jerome
* [http://www.jeromekjerome.com/ The Jerome K. Jerome Society]
* [http://www.shortstoryarchive.com/j/jerome_k_jerome.html Jerome K. Jerome Short Stories]
* [http://www.jkjquotes.com/ Jerome K. Jerome Quotes subject-wise]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10095 Jerome K. Jerome on Find-A-Grave]
* [http://www.billgreenwell.com/lost_lives/ Jerome K. Jerome in 1881]
* [http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search_advanced.php?title=&author=Jerome%2C+Jerome+K.&cat=&genre=&status=all&type=&language=&date=&reader=&bc=&mc=&action=Search Audio versions of Jerome K. Jerome's works] on
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