Three Men on the Bummel (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Jerome K. Jerome

Published in 1900, this sequel of sorts to the classic Three Men in a Boat features the same three characters—J. (the narrator and stand-in for the author), and his friends George and Harris—embarking on a "bummel"—"a journey, long or short, without an end," as J. describes it—through the Black Forest.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411436411

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.