Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) (1889) By: Jerome K. Jerome (Comedy Novel )

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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 two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,[1] 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 Jerome K. Jerome) 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 Jerome 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.
  • | Author: Jerome K. Jerome
  • | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • | Publication Date: Feb 15, 2017
  • | Number of Pages: 110 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1543133746
  • | ISBN-13: 9781543133745
Author:
Jerome K. Jerome
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date:
Feb 15, 2017
Number of pages:
110 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1543133746
ISBN-13:
9781543133745