Audiobooks by Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K Jerome: A BBC Radio Collection: Three Men in a Boat & more

"BBC adaptations of the 19th-century humourist’s best-loved tales, plus Judith French’s sly comedy based on Jerome’s experiences as a would-be actor Jerome K Jerome is best known for his comedy classic Three Men in a Boat and its sequel Three Men on the Bummel. Both hilarious tales are included here, alongside two spooky short stories, extracts from Jerome’s humorous essays and theatrical memoir, and a comic drama about his acting career. Three Men in a Boat – This 1962 musical adaptation of Jerome’s comic masterpiece about three friends who journey down the River Thames stars Leslie Phillips as George, Kenneth Horne as Harris and Hubert Gregg as ‘J’. Three Men on the Bummel – After their adventures afloat, the intrepid trio take to two wheels, deciding to embark on a cycling tour of Germany. Adapted and performed by Jeremy Nicholas. The Dancing Partner – When a group of young women bemoan a lack of dance partners, toymaker Papa Geibel gets creative… James Hayter, Rolf Lefebvre and Sheila Grant star in this dramatisation of Jerome’s spine-chilling story. . After Supper Ghost Stories – Christmas Eve 1891, and in Laburnum Grove, Tooting, Uncle John’s whisky-punch and Aunt Maria’s lobsters aren’t the only frights on the menu. Starring Dinsdale Lansden, Geoffrey Matthews and Linda Polan. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow – In these five sparkling essays, read by Hugh Laurie and abridged by Neville Teller, our hapless narrator offers us his entertaining observations on the topics of being idle, cats and dogs, love and romance, eating and drinking, and babies. On Stage – Adapted and read by Stephen Surrey, these witty, whimsical extracts find the author looking back on his time treading the boards, recalling his performances and his fellow thespians. One Man on a Stage – Judith French’s scintillating play imagines Jerome’s life as a jobbing actor, working alongside the enthusiastic no-hopers of the provincial Victorian stage. Starring Joseph Millson. First published 1885 (On the Stage – and Off), 1886 (Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow), 1889 (Three Men in a Boat), 1891 (‘After Supper Ghost Stories’), 1893 (‘The Dancing Partner’), 1900 (Three Men on the Bummel), (One Man on a Stage) text copyright © Judith French 2007 Cast and credits Written by Jerome K Jerome Three Men in a Boat Three Men on the Bummel The Dancing Partner After Supper Ghost Stories Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow On Stage One Man on a Stage © 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Dinsdale Landen, Full Cast, Hubert Gregg, Hugh Laurie, Jeremy Nicholas, Joseph Millson, Kenneth Horne, Leslie Philips (Narrator)

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Three Men in a Boat

"Embark on a hilariously misadventurous journey with friends J., George, Harris, and the spirited dog Montmorency. Seeking respite from their mundane routines, they set off on a boating expedition along the Thames. Amidst comical calamities and whimsical reflections, Jerome crafts a timeless tale of friendship and folly. Through witty observations and charming antics, the narrative sails effortlessly through the absurdities of everyday life."

Jerome K. Jerome (Author), James Harrington (Narrator)

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Three Men on The Bummel

"Jerome K. Jerome reunites readers with J., George, and Harris for another whimsical escapade, this time on a cycling tour through the Black Forest. Packed with the same delightful humor and sharp observations, the trio encounters a new array of mishaps and cultural curiosities. Jerome crafts an uproarious narrative that reflects on the absurdities of travel and companionship, offering light-hearted insights into the unpredictable adventures of life."

Jerome K. Jerome (Author), James Harrington (Narrator)

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Told After Supper

"Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Other works include the essay collections 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 several other novels. Owing to bad investments in the local mining industry, Jerome’s family fell into poverty and debt collectors visited often, an experience Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times (1926).The young Jerome wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of his father when the younger Jerome was age 13 and of his mother when he was age 15 forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. He was employed at the London and Northwestern Railway, initially collecting coal that fell along the railway, and remained there for four years. Narrator Edward E. French is “Best Makeup” Oscar nominated for his extraordinary Makeup Effects in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He has won the “Best Makeup” Emmy Award for work in the Westworld reboot and the TV series House. He has also won the Hollywood Makeup Guild Award for work on Mad TV. His email is: edwardfrench06@hotmail.com"

Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Edward E. French (Narrator)

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

"Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, 'as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog'. The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.[citation needed]. Following the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels, 1900). Famous works of the author Jerome K. Jerome: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men in a Boat, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Three Men on the Bummel, Paul Kelver, All Roads Lead to Calvary."

Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Peter Coates (Narrator)

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[Polish] - O duchach. Opowieści prawdziwe i straszne

"Antologia klasycznych opowiadań o duchach autorstwa najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli gatunku! Po raz pierwszy w formie audio posłuchasz: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: “Przedwczesny pogrzeb” – org.”The Premature Burial”; 2. Oscar Wilde: “Duch Canterville'ów” – org. “The Canterville Ghost”; 3. Bram Stoker: “Indianka” – org. “The Squaw”; 4. Jerome K. Jerome: “Nawiedzony młyn czyli Zrujnowany dom” – org. „The Haunted Mill”; 5. Rudyard Kipling: „Moja własna, prawdziwa historia o duchach” – org.”My Own True Ghost Story”; 6. H.G. Wells: “Niedoświadczony duch” – org.”The Inexperienced Ghost”"

Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling (Author), Wojciech Masiak (Narrator)

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[Polish] - Boo! Groza na Halloween

"Boo!!! Nie bój się posłuchać! Zbiór opowiadań pełnych grozy autorstwa najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli gatunku! W formie audio posłuchasz: 1. Aleksander Puszkin: “Trumniarz”; 2. Edgar Allan Poe: “Przedwczesny pogrzeb”; 3. Oscar Wilde: “Duch Canterville'ów”; 4. Edgar Allan Poe: “Zagłada domu Usherów”; 5. Bram Stoker: “Indianka”; 6. Fiodor Dostojewski: “Bobok”; 7. Jerome K. Jerome: “Nawiedzony młyn czyli Zrujnowany dom”; 8. Joseph Conrad: “Gospoda pod Dwiema Wiedźmami”; 9. Rudyard Kipling: „Moja własna, prawdziwa historia o duchach”; 10. H.G. Wells: “Niedoświadczony duch”. © 2023 Wydawnictwo Błysk (Audiobook): 9788367739580"

Aleksander Puszkin, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Fiodor Dostojewski, H.G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling (Author), Maciej Kowalik, Wojciech Masiak (Narrator)

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The Victorian Ghost Story - A Compendium

"01 - The Victorian Ghost Story - A Compendium - An Introduction 02 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 03 - The Miniature by J Y Ackerman 04 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu 09 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik 06 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 1 by Edward Bulwer Lytton 07 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 2 by Edward Bulwer Lytton 08 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 09 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 10 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker 11 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 12 - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James 13 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood 14 - The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood 15 - No Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington 16 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 17 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards 18 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant 19 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant 20 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 21 - The Story of the RipplingTrain by Mary Louisa Molesworth 22 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell 23 - At the End of the Passage by Rudyard Kipling 24 - To Let by B M Croker.wav 25 - The Man of Science by Jerome K Jerome 05 - From The Dead by Edith Nesbit 27 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith 28 - Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M R James 29 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton 30 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs 31 - The Tomb of Sarah by F G Loring 32 - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry Pain"

Amelia B. Edwards, B M Croker.Wav, Barry Pain, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Riddell, Edith Nesbit, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, F G Loring, Gertrude Atherton, Henry James, J Y Ackerman, Jerome K. Jerome, Lettice Galbraith, M.R. James, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Mrs Craik, Mrs Ellen Wood, Reverend R S Hawker, Rhoda Broughton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas Street Millington, Tom Hood, W W Jacobs (Author), Ian Holm, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Victorian Ghost Story - The Men

"Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians. When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria's reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on 'the other side', then perhaps it's simply right place, right time. Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than 'The Victorian Ghost Story' for your reading and listening pleasure. 01 - The Victorian Ghost Story - The Men - An Introduction 02 - The Miniature by J Y Ackerman 03 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu 04 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 1 by Edward Bulwer Lytton 05 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 2 by Edward Bulwer Lytton 06 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 07 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker 08 - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James 09 - The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood 10 - No Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington 11 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 12 - At the End of the Passage by Rudyard Kipling 13 - The Man of Science by Jerome K Jerome 14 - Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M R James 15 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs 16 - The Tomb of Sarah by F G Loring 17 - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry Pain"

Barry Pain, Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton, F G Loring, Henry James, J Y Ackerman, Jerome K. Jerome, M.R. James, Reverend R S Hawker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas Street Millington, Tom Hood, W W Jacobs (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Victorian Ghost Story - Volume 3

"Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians. When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria's reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on 'the other side', then perhaps it's simply right place, right time. Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than 'The Victorian Ghost Story' for your reading and listening pleasure. 01 - The Victorian Ghost Story - An Introduction - Volume 3 02 - The Story of the RipplingTrain by Mary Louisa Molesworth 03 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell 04 - At the End of the Passage by Rudyard Kipling 05 - To Let by B M Croker.wav 06 - The Man of Science by Jerome K Jerome 05 - From The Dead by Edith Nesbit 08 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith 09 - Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M R James 10 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton 11 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs 12 - The Tomb of Sarah by F G Loring 13 - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry Pain"

B M Croker.Wav, Barry Pain, Charlotte Riddell, Edith Nesbit, F G Loring, Gertrude Atherton, Jerome K. Jerome, Lettice Galbraith, M.R. James, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Rudyard Kipling, W W Jacobs (Author), David Shaw-Parker, George S. Irving, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Three Men in a Boat

"'Three Men in a Boat' is a humorous account penned by Jerome K. Jerome and first published in 1889. The story chronicles the comedic misadventures of three friends - Jerome, George, and Harris - along with Montmorency, their spirited fox-terrier, as they embark on a boating holiday along the Thames River. What starts as a restorative leisure trip quickly becomes an uproarious journey filled with mishaps, misunderstandings, and memorable anecdotes. Through Jerome's witty narrative, the novel presents a delightful mix of absurdity and astute observations on human nature and the Victorian era's peculiarities."

Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Jason Smith (male Synthesized Voice) (Narrator)

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[French] - Trois hommes dans un bateau (sans parler du chien)

"Plongez-vous dans les pages enchanteresses de 'Trois hommes dans un bateau, sans parler du chien' et laissez-vous entraîner dans une aventure aussi hilarante qu'inoubliable. Écrit par le maître de l'humour britannique, Jerome K. Jerome, ce livre est un véritable chef-d'œuvre de la littérature comique. Suivez les péripéties de trois amis excentriques - Jérôme, George et Harris - qui décident de s'embarquer dans une escapade fluviale à bord d'une barque sur la Tamise. Leur objectif ? Fuir la morosité du quotidien et s'évader vers de nouveaux horizons, naviguant au gré des eaux sereines de la rivière. Mais l'aventure ne serait pas complète sans l'ajout d'un membre de la famille bien particulier : Montmorency, leur espiègle et indomptable chien. Avec son comportement frondeur et ses facéties inattendues, Montmorency est sans aucun doute la cerise sur le gâteau de cette odyssée loufoque. Cependant, derrière l'éclat de rire et la légèreté apparente, 'Trois hommes dans un bateau' est aussi un voyage introspectif. Les personnages nous livrent leurs pensées sur la vie, l'amitié, les absurdités du monde et le sens de l'existence. Entre deux éclats de rire, les mots de Jerome K. Jerome résonnent d'une sagesse subtile, faisant de ce livre une véritable réflexion sur l'humaine condition. Préparez-vous à être entraîné dans un tourbillon d'aventures, de rires et de joies aux côtés de trois compagnons atypiques et de leur fidèle acolyte canin. Vous ressortirez de cette lecture avec un sourire aux lèvres et un sentiment profond que les amis les plus improbables peuvent vivre les aventures les plus inoubliables."

Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Maria Fuentes (Narrator)

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