| All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. Jerome, Fiction, Classics, Literary Contributor(s): Jerome, Jerome K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603129790 ISBN-13: 9781603129794 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Joan is a smart and independent woman working as a journalist in London. She has grand plans for her future, dreaming of the day when she publishes her novel. However, when the war comes, she decides to go for the adventure of it. When she's there, she realizes that war is not all the romantics say it is. Jerome K. Jerome is a satirist best known for "Three Men in a Boat," He also joined the war effort at the age of fifty-six as an ambulance driver in the French Army. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.97 lbs) 204 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Jerome, Jerome K.: - "Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927) was an English writer and humourist, 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 inspired by his older sister Blandina's love for the theatre and he decided to try his hand at acting in 1877, under the stage name Harold Crichton. He joined a repertory troupe that produced plays on a shoestring budget, often drawing on the actors' own meager resources - Jerome was penniless at the time - to purchase costumes and props. After three years on the road with no evident success, the 21-year-old Jerome decided that he had enough of stage life and sought other occupations. He tried to become a journalist, writing essays, satires and short stories, but most of these were rejected. Over the next few years, he was a school teacher, a packer and a solicitor's clerk. Finally, in 1885, he had some success with On the Stage - and Off (1885), a comic memoir of his experiences with the acting troupe, followed by Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886), a collection of humorous essays which had previously appeared in the newly founded magazine, Home Chimes, the same magazine that would later serialize Three Men in a Boat." |