Three Men In A Boat - Read by Martin Jarvis - Jerome K. Jerome Audiobook

Written by Jerome K. Jerome
Read by Martin Jarvis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

GENERAL INFORMATION
Book Title:………………..Three Men In A Boat
Series Name:…………….Three Men
Series No:………………..01
Author:……………………Jerome K. Jerome
Narrator:………………….Martin Jarvis
Genre:…………………….Classic Humour
Publisher:…………………Naxos
ISBN:……………………..9789 6263 43555

FILE INFORMATION
Source:……………………6 CDs
# of MP3 files:…………..6
Total Runtime:…………..6 Hours 35 Minutes
Encoder:………………….Fraunhofer [FhG] (Guess) - A secure rip using dBpoweramp
Converted To:……………64 Kb | CBR | 44,100 Hz | Mono
Total Size:………………..180 MB
Converted By:……………OldScotsman
Date Converted:…………11 May 2011
ID3 Tags:…………………Includes Image and all info shown on this page (Smart Phone Ready)

ABOUT THE BOOK
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a ‘T’. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks—not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.’s small fox-terrier Montmorency.
Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian ‘clerking classes’, it hilariously captured the spirit of its age.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born Jerome Clapp Jerome on 2 May 1859 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England and died in June 1927. The family surname was originally Clapp, but his parents took the seemingly inexplicable decision to change it to Jerome. The failure of his father’s colliery forced the family to decamp to London, where Jerome attended the Philological School (later Marylebone Grammar School). They lived in Poplar at the heart of the East End, where Jerome was tormented as an obvious outsider and the family had no choice but to relinquish their middle-class lifestyle. After his father’s death, the fourteen-year-old Jerome was obliged to find a job, working as a clerk for the London and North Western Railway. When his mother died two years later, Jerome was able to achieve his ambition of becoming an actor, a profession of which his god-fearing parents would have strongly disapproved. Although touring with theatre companies provided variety and excitement, Jerome soon found himself sleeping rough on the streets of London. He was discovered there by an old friend who persuaded him to become a journalist. The pay and prospects weren’t much better, and Jerome supplemented his income by working as a solicitor’s clerk. He had, however, risen sufficiently in the world to settle down, marrying in 1888 the recently divorced wife of his first cousin. It was shortly after his marriage that Jerome wrote Three Men in a Boat (1888) the phenomenally successful novel that was to become both a curse and a blessing. Although it catapulted him to literary stardom, most reviewers refused to take his subsequent work seriously, and his lower-middle-class status was ridiculed by many. He felt an affinity with Charles Dickens who could never escape the legacy of Pickwick.

ABOUT THE READER
Martin Jarvis is a distinguished actor with a very long career and is probably best known for his radio work - his voice is a staple of Radio 4. With his wife Rosalind Ayres, he runs Jarvis and Ayres Productions, which produces dramas, readings and audiobooks. For this, and his other work, Martin was honoured with an OBE for his services to drama in 2000. Martin often steps behind the mike himself, and has narrated dozens of audiobooks and readings, including versions of Richmal Crompton’s William books, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, P.G. Wodehouse’s Carry On Jeeves, and 101 Dalmations. Martin’s TV debut was in Doctor Who in 1965, playing a giant butterfly in The Web Planet. A couple of years later he played Jolyon Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga. Since then, his many TV parts have included Oliver, the main lead, in 1978 sitcom Rings On Their Fingers, Uriah Heep in David Copperfield, and Jeeves in the TV version of Alan Ayckbourn’s musical By Jeeves!l

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