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Джером Клапка Джером (1859 - 1927) е автор на около 50 книги - романи, разкази, есета, пиеси. Със своя неподражаем хумор той повече от век разсмива, забавлява и радва милиони хора по света. Творбите му са остроумни и мъдри, добродушни и прочувствени, дълбоки и утешителни. Той увлича със сладкодумието си, но и намига шеговито, показвайки, че животът и хората са поносими само ако не ги вземаме прекалено на сериозно.
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success followed. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the River Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards. He continued to write fiction, non-fiction and plays over the next few decades, though never with the same level of success.