In the summer of 1888, the English writer Jerome K. Jerome, who had just entered into a legal marriage, spent his honeymoon on the Thames. From travel impressions and memories of this happy time, the idea of one of the funniest books in world literature was born. The adventures of the hapless, good-natured Englishmen traveling along the Thames, which Jerome wrote about in the novel Three in a Boat and a Dog and its sequel, Three on Four Wheels (as well as the small masterpiece created in between, Notes on an Unwritten Novel, in which the same unforgettable heroes are recognized) have become well known even in the most remote corners of the planet. Readers treat Jerome's works with unfailing love in Russia, where his remarkable talent was rated almost higher than in the writer's homeland. And thanks to the brilliant film adaptation of the novel, carried out in 1979, in which the main roles were played by Andrei Mironov, Alexander Shirvindt and Mikhail Derzhavin, Jerome became even closer and more understandable to us.
This publication includes five novels by Jerome K. Jerome in the best translations ( “Notes for an Unwritten Novel” is published in its entirety in a brilliant new translation by Alexandra Glebovskaya). These works are not just the perfect cure for boredom and bad mood, but also true all-time classics!
Author: Jerome Klapka Jerome
Translation: Victoria Agayants, Alexandra Glebovskaya, Mikhail Donskoy
Pages: 864 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 217x150x38 mm
Series: Foreign literature. Big books
