My Life & Times
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Few writers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras captured the absurdity and warmth of everyday English life with quite the same charm as Jerome K. Jerome, and My Life & Times stands as his most intimate self-portrait. This autobiography chronicles the remarkable journey of a man who rose from poverty and obscurity to become one of Britain's most beloved comic writers, recounting his years as a struggling actor, journalist, and playwright before the runaway success of Three Men in a Boat transformed his fortunes forever. Written with the same self-deprecating wit and gentle irony that made his fiction so enduringly popular, the memoir presents a vivid panorama of late Victorian London — its theatres, taverns, and literary salons — peopled with an extraordinary cast of friends, rivals, and eccentrics. Jerome's prose style, deceptively simple yet richly observed, illuminates the social and cultural upheavals of an era straddling two centuries, offering a rare insider's account of the bohemian literary world of the 1880s and 1890s. This Folio Society edition, graced with an introduction by Joseph Connolly, situates Jerome's life within its broader historical and literary context, lending fresh authority to a text that is both a personal confession and a social document of the first order. For readers who know Jerome only through his comic masterpieces, My Life & Times reveals the surprising depths — and the quiet sorrows — behind the laughter.
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Format: Hardback
Published: 1993, The Folio Society
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Few writers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras captured the absurdity and warmth of everyday English life with quite the same charm as Jerome K. Jerome, and My Life & Times stands as his most intimate self-portrait. This autobiography chronicles the remarkable journey of a man who rose from poverty and obscurity to become one of Britain's most beloved comic writers, recounting his years as a struggling actor, journalist, and playwright before the runaway success of Three Men in a Boat transformed his fortunes forever. Written with the same self-deprecating wit and gentle irony that made his fiction so enduringly popular, the memoir presents a vivid panorama of late Victorian London — its theatres, taverns, and literary salons — peopled with an extraordinary cast of friends, rivals, and eccentrics. Jerome's prose style, deceptively simple yet richly observed, illuminates the social and cultural upheavals of an era straddling two centuries, offering a rare insider's account of the bohemian literary world of the 1880s and 1890s. This Folio Society edition, graced with an introduction by Joseph Connolly, situates Jerome's life within its broader historical and literary context, lending fresh authority to a text that is both a personal confession and a social document of the first order. For readers who know Jerome only through his comic masterpieces, My Life & Times reveals the surprising depths — and the quiet sorrows — behind the laughter.