Three Men in a Boat: The classic and pioneering example of dry British wit (Abridged)

Jerome Klapka Jerome was born on the 2nd May 1859 at Belsize House in Caldmore, Walsall, England.

His family were reduced to poverty whilst he was a toddler owning to failed investments in the local mining industry.

After several moves in declining circumstances Jerome became a pupil at St Marylebone Grammar School. His aim then was to go into politics, or even become a man of letters, but with the death of his father, when he was thirteen, and his mother two years later, now meant that he ha...