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Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat:

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Oct. 31, 2015)
Often being mentioned as one of the funniest books ever written in English, in Jerome K. Jerome's classic comedy novel, Three Men in a Boat, three friends decide they are suffering from "overwork" and need a holiday. They decide to take a boating holiday up the River Thames and encounter numerous humorous incidents. Three Men in a Boat is one of those rare classics that seems to come, as it were, out of nowhere, and to defy the odds. On publication, the reviews ranged from the vitriolic to the merely hostile. The use of slang was condemned as "vulgar" and the book as a whole abused as a shameless appeal to 'Arrys and 'Arriets – sneering critical terms for working-class Londoners. The magazine Punch dubbed Jerome K. Jerome 'Arry K. 'Arry. But the public did not care and Jerome sold more than 200.000 copies of the first edition – an almost unfathomable number for a book. His publisher told a friend: "I pay Jerome so much in royalties, I cannot imagine what becomes of all the copies of that book I issue. I often think the public must eat them." Such was its success that the number of boats on the Thames increased by 50% the two years after its publication. It has never been out of print since.
Series
Immortal Classics
ISBN
1518865143 / 9781518865145
Pages
134
Weight
9.1 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.34 in.

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