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Jerome Klapka Jerome ( 2 ___MASK81___ 1859  14 June 1927 ) was an English writer and humourist , best known for the comic travelogue " Three Men in a Boat " ( 1887 ). Oxford is a ___MASK40___ in the South East region of England and the ___MASK60___ of Oxfordshire . With a population of 159 , 994 it is the 52nd largest ___MASK40___ in the United Kingdom , and one of the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse . The ___MASK40___ is situated from London , from Bristol , from both Southampton and Birmingham and from Reading . A ___MASK23___ novel is a novel - length work of humorous ___MASK52___ . Many well - known authors have written ___MASK23___ novels , including P . G . Wodehouse , Henry Fielding , Mark Twain , and John Kennedy Toole . ___MASK36___ Men in a ___MASK9___ ( To Say Nothing of the ___MASK20___ ), 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 ___MASK93___ 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 " ___MASK36___ Men in a ___MASK9___ " is how undated it appears to modern readers  the jokes seem fresh and witty even today . Kingston upon Thames , also known as Kingston , is the ___MASK92___ settlement of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in southwest London . It was the ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned . Kingston is situated southwest of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan . Kingston lies approximately 33 feet ( 10 metres ) above sea level . Kingston was part of a large ancient parish in the ___MASK74___ of Surrey and the town was an ancient borough , reformed in 1835 . It has been the location of Surrey ___MASK74___ Hall from 1893 , extraterritorially in terms of local government administration since Kingston became part of Greater London in 1965 . Most of the town centre is part of the KT1 postcode area , but some areas north of Kingston railway station have the postcode KT2 instead . The population of the town itself , comprising the four wards of Canbury , Grove , Norbiton and Tudor , was 43 , 013 in the 2011 census . To Say Nothing of the ___MASK20___ : " or , How We Found the Bishop ' s ___MASK53___ Stump at Last " is a 1997 ___MASK23___ science ___MASK52___ novel by Connie Willis . It takes place in the same universe of time - traveling historians she explored in her story " Fire Watch " and novels " Doomsday ___MASK93___ " ( 1992 ) and " Blackout / All Clear " ( 2010 ). Paul Kelver is a 1902 autobiographical ___MASK3___ by Jerome K . Jerome ( best known for Three Men in a ___MASK9___ ) .