Jerome K Jerome - Six of the Best – An Introduction: Their legacy in 6 classic stories

Written by Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by James Taylor

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.

Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best.

In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words.

These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

1 - Six of the Best - Jerome K Jerome - An Introduction

2 - Jerome K Jerome - An Introduction

3 - The Absent Minded Man by Jerome K Jerome

4 - The Man of Science by Jerome K Jerome

5 - The Man Who Went Wrong by Jerome K Jerome

6 - The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck by Jerome K Jerome

7 - 76 - The Lesson by Jerome K Jerome

8 - Told After Supper - The Doctor's Story by Jerome K Jerome

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group Audio
• Release date: Feb 2, 2024
• ISBN: 9781835478769

Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in 1859 and was brought up in London. He started work as a railway clerk at fourteen, and later was employed as a schoolmaster, actor and journalist. He published two volumes of comic essays and in 1889 Three Men in a Boat. This was an instant success. His new-found wealth enabled him to become one of the founders of The Idler, a humorous magazine which published pieces by W W Jacobs, Bret Harte, Mark Twain and others. In 1900 he wrote a sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, which follows the adventures of the three protagonists on a walking tour through Germany. Jerome married in 1888 and had a daughter. He served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War and died in 1927.