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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat is a humorous account by English writer 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 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 J. 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.

THREE MEN IN A BOAT JEROME K. JEROME "One of the most praised things about this book is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes seem fresh and witty even today." Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is one of the comic gems in the English language. One of the most praised things about this book is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.

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.

If you've never read anything by Jerome K. Jerome, you'd be well advised to heed this warning by the Glasgow Herald: "It would be dangerous to [listen to] this book in any place--say a full railway compartment--where the reader was not at perfect liberty to laugh as loudly and as long as he chose." The passage of time has not altered that verdict. Here is a perfect picture of those lazy summer days "messing about in boats." After his final trip up the river Thames with his three companions--Harris, George, and Montmorency the dog--Jerome K. Jerome sat down to write his proposed book, The Story of the Thames. But before he could tackle the work in the serious manner intended, his humor took over and gave birth to a masterpiece of unquenchable comedy. This is a classic of English humor, justifiably loved around the world.

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 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 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 J. 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.

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.

Jerome K. Jerome’s comical masterpiece was published in 1889 and took the world by storm through its then original hilarious depiction of what was first intended to be a serious, somewhat sentimental travel guide. Soon enough, however, the humor took over, and the story became a brilliantly enchanting novel through its simplicity. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is written as a humorous travel guide presented through the eyes of three friends who engage in a lengthy and eventful boat ride on the Thames. Their adventures, the beautiful and interesting historical places they encounter en route, and the three friends’ unlikely and ingeniously thought out adventures make this little novel definitely worth reading. The three companions are Harris, George and the narrator. Aside from the fact that they’re all hypochondriacs, they soon realize that nothing is as easy as they look. They end up encountering strange, vicious animals that seem to be out to get them, take a trip downstream without a paddle and even end up insulting a few German professors on the way. There is never a dull moment on their journey, which will make you want to keep reading till you reach the end. Jerome based the book on himself and his own two good friends. They were the initial inspiration for the three hilarious characters you will meet in the book, and the dog may have been entirely fictional, but Jerome admitted that it had much of his personality. Despite having been published well over a century ago, Three Men in a Boat remains a freshly humorous novel enjoyed by young and old readers alike today. If you enjoy the idea of finding something unexpectedly and delightfully humorous in most everyday events, the story will be perfect for illustrating precisely how anyone can learn from the three curious companions and turn their lives into a genuine, hilarious adventure.