Jerome K. Jerome

Malvina of Brittany (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of short stories and a novella captures much of the whimsy for which Jerome is known. Malvina of Brittany follows the exploits of a mischievous fairy who was once the favored attendant of Queen Harbundia of Brittany in 2000 B.C. Banished from her kind because of a foolish act, Malvina is forced to travel alone through time until she is discovered in 1914 and introduced to English village societywith humorous and unexpected results. Also includes The Street of the Blank Wall, The Lesson, Sylvia of the Letters, The Fawn Gloves, and His Evening Out.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411464216
• Artikelnr.: 37873682

Autorenporträt

Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist best known for his comedic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include 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 a number of novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, while he was able to attend grammar school, his family and he struggled financially as a young man working in numerous industries. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, which led to success. He married in 1888, and their honeymoon was spent on a boat on the Thames; he authored Three Men in a Boat shortly after. He continued to write fiction, nonfiction, and plays for the next three decades, but never achieved the same degree of popularity. Jerome was born in Belsize House on 1 Caldmore Road in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He was the fourth child of Marguerite Jones and Jerome Clapp (after known as Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher with an interest in building. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and a brother, Milton, who died at a young age.