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| Jerome, Jerome Klapka |
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| 18591927, English humorist and playwright. His Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Three Men in a Boat (1889) gave him his reputation for genial humor. Of his dramatic works, The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1907), a contemporary morality play, was the most famous. | 1 | | See study by R. M. Favrot (1973). | 2 |
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