Reading Space · New Curriculum English Graded Readers The Three Strange Guests' Boat Trip ((English-Chinese Bilingual Edition))

Author: Jerome
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Explore classic Western literature, rich and diverse themes; vivid and authentic language, preserving the original English flavor; aligned with Cambridge English proficiency exams; bilingual edition meets learning and appreciation needs; English annotations and English-Chinese parallel versions cater to different teaching and reading requirements.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) was born in Worsall, Staffordshire. At the age of 14, he began working as a clerk on the railway. Later, he became a teacher, an actor, and eventually a journalist. In 1888, he published Three Men in a Boat and Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, both of which achieved great success. In 1892, he co-founded the illustrated monthly The Idler, and in 1893, he launched the weekly The Contemporary. He also wrote a famous play titled The Three Impostors, which is a serious work depicting the influence of a Christ-like figure on a group of vulgar individuals.
Three Men in a Boat is described as "a record of a real voyage," but the world Jerome depicts has a unique poetic quality, as such a world no longer exists. World War I brought fear and despair to the world, and Three Men in a Boat shows us a pastoral world that once existed in England before the war.