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Jerome K. Jerome's comic masterpiece based on the adventures of J, Harris and George, who decide a boating holiday would be just the thing to help them recover from overwork. Their famous journey up the Thames, from Kingston-upon-Thames to Oxford is thwarted variously by incompetence, recalcitrant tins of pineapple, and an irascible fox terrier called Montmorency.This Kindle edition (with active table of contents) includes a new introduction by Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton, Jerome K. Jerome's most recent biographer.

* Beautifully illustrated with delightful sketches from early editions, Three Men in a Boat is the hilarious tale of a boating trip on the Thames. Hardy initially intended it as a serious travel guide, but humor became its central theme.* Just as accessible and enjoyable for today's readers as it would have been when first published over a century ago, the novel is one of the great works of English literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog): The story begins by introducing George, Harris, Jerome and Montmorency, a fox terrier. The men are spending an evening in J.'s room, smoking and discussing illnesses they fancy they suffer from. They conclude they are all suffering from 'overwork' and need a holiday. A stay in the country and a sea trip are both considered, then rejected after J. describes the bad experiences had by his brother-in-law and a friend on sea trips. The three decide on a boating holiday up the River Thames, from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford, during which they will camp, notwithstanding Jerome's anecdotes about previous experiences with tents and camping stoves.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. 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 seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he 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 is just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog...), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. 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 seem fresh and witty even today.

Jerome K. Jerome’s travel-guide-cum-satire of Victorian EnglandHarris, George, and J. are three Victorian idlers. But their often lethargic routine needs a change of scenery. Why not a trip up the Thames in an open boat? Rife with social satire and Victorian wit, Jerome K. Jerome’s novel offers an unexpectedly humorous travelogue and paints a vivid picture of nineteenth century England.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

THREE MEN IN A BOATThis edition of Jerome K. Jerome’s “comic gem” about a boating holiday on the River Thames includes the original illustrations by Arthur Frederics.“There are a few seriously funny books that remain great for all time. Three Men in a Boat is one of these.” (The Guardian, The 100 Best Novels.)Since its publication, Three Men In A Boat has never been out of print.It was ranked #33 in The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (The Guardian).It was ranked #2 in The 50 Funniest Books ever (Esquire).The book was also listed on the BBC’s survey The Big Read.“I did not intend to write a funny book, at first,” said its author. He intended to write a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humour took over and it sold in huge numbers. READERS’ REVIEWS“An absolute masterpiece. One of the funniest, true-to-life books that I am ever likely to read.”“Both funny and evocative. It is rightly regarded as a comedy classic.”“I found this hilarious when I first discovered it in my teenage years...Still has the power to reduce me to fits of laughter...If you haven’t discovered this classic yet, you’re missing a treat.”“One of my all-time favourite books – you will laugh out loud.”“The characters are so realistic, with more than a passing resemblance to many people you know.”“Hilarious. A classic!”“I have read this book so many times and it never fails to have me in tears of laughter.”“Timeless. One of the funniest books I have ever read.”“This is quite simply the funniest book ever written in the English language.”

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Three Men in a Boat begins: THERE were four of us -- George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were -- bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course. We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that HE had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what HE was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all. It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.