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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.
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Passing of the Third Floor Back - Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome
Passing of the Third Floor Back
EAN 8596547180388
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Author of Paul Kelver,
Three Men in a Boat,
etc., etc.
New York
Dodd, Mead & Company
1909
Copyright, 1904, By Jerome K. Jerome
Copyright, 1908, By Dodd, Mead & Company
Published, September, 1908
The neighbourhood of Bloomsbury Square towards four o’clock of a November afternoon is not so crowded as to secure to the stranger, of appearance anything out of the common, immunity from observation. Tibb’s boy, screaming at the top of his voice that she was his honey, stopped suddenly, stepped backwards on to the toes of a voluble young lady wheeling a perambulator, and remained deaf, apparently, to the somewhat personal remarks of the voluble young lady. Not until he had reached the next corner—and then more as a soliloquy than as information to the street—did Tibb’s boy recover sufficient interest in his own affairs to remark that he was her bee. The voluble young lady herself, following some half-a-dozen yards behind, forgot her wrongs in contemplation of the stranger’s back. There was this that was peculiar about the stranger’s back: that instead of being flat it presented a decided curve. It ain’t a ‘ump, and it don’t look like kervitcher of the spine,
observed the voluble young lady to herself. Blimy if I don’t believe ‘e’s taking ’ome ‘is washing up his back.
The constable at the corner, trying to seem busy doing nothing, noticed the stranger’s approach with gathering interest. That’s an odd sort of a walk of yours, young man,
thought the constable. You take care you don’t fall down and tumble over yourself.
Thought he was a young man,
murmured the constable, the stranger having passed him. He had a young face right enough.
The daylight was fading. The stranger, finding it impossible to read the name of the street