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Title	:	Three Men in a Boat (Three Men #1)
Author	:	Jerome K. Jerome
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Popular Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 185 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1994 by Penguin Books (first published 1889)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Humor. Travel

Three Men in a Boat (Three Men #1) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 185 pages

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A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin Classics.

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian 'clerking classes', it hilariously captured the spirit of its age.

In his introduction, Jeremy Lewis examines Jerome K. Jerome's life and times, and the changing world of Victorian England he depicts - from the rise of a new mass-culture of tabloids and bestselling novels to crazes for daytripping and bicycling.

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Original Title:	Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
ISBN:	0140621334 (ISBN13: 9780140621334)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Three Men #1
Characters:	Jerome K. Jerome, William Samuel Harris, Montmorency, George (Three men)
Setting:	River Thames, England London, England Kingston-upon-Thames, London, England(United Kingdom) …more Hampton, England(United Kingdom) Marlow, England(United Kingdom) Magna Carta Island, England(United Kingdom) …less

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I originally read this because I'm a big fan of Connie Willis and she went on and on about it, but when I actually read it, I was charmed for its own sake. :)It's all so very droll. Fish stories, laziness, incompetence, dishonesty, pathos and great verve stud these pages. It's an adventure for the ages! Of course, it's just three men in a boat, to say nothing of the dog. Set in Victorian England, it captures the overblown hypochondriac feel of the age. :)Well worth the read, and now I think I'm

https://clsiewert.wordpress.com/2014/...I love To Say Nothing of the Dog. Adore it enough to own two copies, a paperback for reading/ lending, and a hardcover for keepsies. Love it enough, in fact, to write a ridiculous review comparing it to a Beethoven symphony (my review). Willis dedicated her book to Heinlein, who introduced me to Jerome K. Jeromes Three Men in a Boat. So when I saw Project Gutenberg offered Three Men in a Boat, I snatched it up.It is the time of year when I dont have much

Updated in August, 2014I lost count of the number of times I read this book. It was written in the late 19th century; it is still hilarious. The author attempted to write a travel guide on a Themes boat trip. At this, he failed miserably. In the book he switches the subject constantly telling somewhat related (or completely unrelated) stories; most of them are really, really funny. I always laugh out loud when I read his description of setting up a tent on a bad weather day, or the scene with

That I read this novel is due to serendipity. Wanting something on the light side to read while spending a few days at the beach, I decided to check out some Scandinavian crime fiction. (Why did I think this would constitute "light reading"?!). A search for a suitable novel led me to read an article about Scandinavian crime fiction in the The Guardian. Nothing jumped out at me, other than a link to another article in the same newspaper: crime writer Val McDermid's Top 10 Oxford Novels. Included

It looked like a breezy read, a good-natured gently comical novel. Certainly it is not at all hard to read but nevertheless, this book was a grind for me to get through. Humorous novels suffer a great disadvantage in that I tend to expect to find something to laugh at on each every page. This is quite a tall order and very hard for most books to accomplish. P.G. Wodehouse, Oscar Wilde, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett often make me laugh with their fiction but generally I try to avoid comedy

Utterly delightful from beginning to end; had me in stitches more than once. I loved the digressions, the endless tales about friends and friends-of-friends; the charming diagrams; the sudden swoops into romantic (and Romantic) flights of fancy. In my mind, all three characters spoke like Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster (with similar sensibility; that is to say, none at all). I can't reproduce it all here, but one of my favorite scenes was that in which the narrator describes his loathing for

Laugh-aloud hilarious! I felt as if I were tagging along, unobserved, on a boat trip with my brothers in the days of their youth (transposed back a century). The absurdities and ironies of the ordinary, things going wrong, anthropomorphism employed to great comic effect when boats and all their "cussed" paraphernalia seem to have minds of their own. Men showing off, embarrassments with girls, physical comedy, a bit of social commentary. The affectionate insults and jokes of three young buddies