Three Men in a Boat
A Thames boating holiday, and the funniest book of 1889.
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Three friends and a dog take a boating holiday on the Thames. Their preparations, mishaps, and digressions turn an ordinary journey into a comic account of human habits.
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George, Harris, the narrator J. and the dog Montmorency decide a fortnight on the Thames will do them good. They pack badly, fail to open a tin of pineapple, get lost in the Hampton Court maze, and are repeatedly rained on.
Jerome intended a serious travel guide with comic relief; the comedy took over. It has never been out of print, and the opening chapter on imagining you have every disease except housemaid’s knee is still quoted.
- Why the opening hypochondria chapter remains one of the most quoted comic passages in English.
- How Jerome’s digressions, packing, tins, banjos, do most of the comic work.
- What Montmorency the dog contributes as a character rather than a pet.
- How the surviving travel-guide passages sit against the comedy.
- Why the sudden serious passage about the drowned woman is left in.
- How a book about very little has stayed in print since 1889.
Book details
- Author
- Jerome K. Jerome
- ISBN
- 9789380703145
- Publisher
- Lexicon Publishing
- Language
- English
- Format
- Paperback
Additional information
- SKU
- TL-HPS4G8ZP
- Category
- Fiction
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