![]() The "Idle Thoughts" have a dry, whimsical touch, and the "Three Men" provide unlimited knockabout fun. In 1889, he published "The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" and "Three Men in Boat," both of which ran through many editions. It was a fresh subject when Jerome brought his wit to bear upon it, and his wry humour attracted attention. The subject of stage life has been considerably over-written by now. He had roughed it in "the smalls," sent out for sixpenny suppers of sheep head's and porter and seen most of the miseries and none of the splendours of the profession on fifteen shillings a week. Its name, "On the Stage and Off," relates to the arrival and departure of Jerome in and from the theatrical world. His first book was written in 1888, the year of his marriage to the daughter of a Spanish officer. ![]() Before he was thirty he had sampled several professions he had tried his hand at office work, at teaching, and at acting. ![]() Jerome Klapka Jerome was born at Walsall on May 2 1859. ![]()
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