Three Men in a Boat 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, 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 have been praised as fresh and witt
- | Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- | Publisher: Independently published
- | Publication Date: January 10, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 232 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1658772970
- | ISBN-13: 9781658772976