Since its publication, the book has never been out of print. However, he remains best known for his comic travelogue ‘Three Man in a Boat’, depicting a two-week boating holiday on the River Thames. Subsequently, working in various capacities, he started writing essays, short stories and satires experiencing first success with ‘On the Stage-and Off’, which after a series of rejection, began to be serialized in a journal, edited by a retired actor, Aylmer Gowing. Living alone in London’s dingy quarters and working as a clerk, he never lost hope and at the age of nineteen, joined a repertory troupe, returning penniless to London after three years. The condition became even worse when he lost his father at the age of thirteen and his mother at fifteen. As a consequence of it, Jerome spent his early years in abject poverty in East London. His father, a nonconformist preacher and a mine owner, lost all he had when his coalmine was submerged in flood water. Jerome Klapka Jerome was a noted English humorist, novelist and playwright, best known for his humorous and comic masterpiece 'Three Men in a Boat'.
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