Diary of a Pilgrimage

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A work that in some way a novelized narrative written by the witty story writer Jerome K. Jerome on his way to Germany accompanied by a close pal so as to view the popular Passion Play at Oberammergau. The trip is in London, Dover, Ostend, Cologne, Munich, Oberau, Oberammergau and after that returning to London through Heidelberg. As the reader may foresee from the writer of Three Men in a Boat, a plentiful goes faulty en voyage, such as sickness at sea, bizarre food, unfamiliar beds, delusory reference books, befuddling train schedules, and countless educational and grammatical misinterpretations.

Jerome Klapka Jerome was a British novelist and satirist, most popular for the funny travel piece Three Men in a Boat.

More of his writings are the essay selections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat, and many others.

Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He was the fourth child of Marguerite Jones and Jerome Clapp, who subsequently changed his name to Jerome Clapp Jerome, an iron peddler and lay evangelist who dallied in architecture. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and one brother, Milton, who died so young. Jerome was listed as Jerome Clapp Jerome, same as his father’s modified name, and the Klapka seems to be a latter derivation, after the expatriated Hungarian general György Klapka. The family became destitute, had huge debts due to grody expenditures in the local mining business, and loan collection agents came around regularly, an incident that Jerome illustrated clearly in his autobiography My Life and Times.

He studied at St. Marylebone Grammar School. He dreamed to become a politician or be a man of letters, but the passing of his father when he was 13 years old and of his mother when he was 15 years old made him to stop studying and look for employment to sustain himself.
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