My Life and Times

First published in 1926, this autobiography follows Jerome from a poor Midlands childhood through clerking, schoolmastering, and a spell as a struggling actor into the writing life of late Victorian London. He describes early journalism, the comic travel narratives that paid his way, lecture tours, and continental journeys, then his work with an ambulance unit in the First World War. Editors, actors, and club acquaintances appear as they did at the time. The tone is anecdotal and self-mocking rather than a formal career chronicle. The book is a personal memoir of literary and theatrical London, not a novel.

Bound in pale brown cloth printed with a wrap-around bicycle design in dark brown. Pale yellow endleaves. Red-brown slipcase.