A few months later on the 14 June he died of a stroke. In February 1927 he returned to his birthplace to be conferred with the honour of the Borough of Walsall. The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel (1900), took the same characters on a cycling tour of Europe.

It was an instant success and made him a wealthy man. His first books to be published were On the Stage and Off (1885) and Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886). In 1888 at the age of 29, he married Georgina Henrietta Stanley Marris. They spent their honeymoon by the Thames and on his return, Jerome began to write his most famous novel, Three Men in a Boat (1889). After that he tried acting, teaching and journalism, but by the time he reached his mid-twenties, he was completely broke. He was employed at the London and North Western Railway for four years, initially collecting coal that fell along the tracks, but later working as a clerk at Euston Railway Station. He wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of his father when he was thirteen, and that of his mother two years later, forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. The young Jerome attended St Marylebone Grammar School. The family moved to London and lived in Poplar, where his father set up as an ironmonger. Owing to bad investments in the local mining industry, the family suffered poverty, and debt collectors often visited, an experience Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times (1926). Jerome This book is part of 'Project Gutenberg' and is available. His middle name was derived from George Klapka, an Hungarian exile, and friend of the family. His father, Jerome Clapp Jerome was a qualified architect, and his mother, Marguerite Jones, was the daughter of a Swansea solicitor. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo. Novelist, essayist, humourist and playwright, Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, Staffordshire in 1859. Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.

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