Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous novel by English writer Jerome K. Jerome describing 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 …
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous novel by English writer Jerome K. Jerome describing 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 from 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 witty. 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". The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. Following the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels, 1900).
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Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
192 pages
English language
Published Oct. 27, 1994 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-062133-4Copied ISBN!
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- 4921
Three Men on the Bummel
208 pages
English language
Published 2007 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-062398-7Copied ISBN!
Tre uomini in barca (per tacer del cane)
235 pages
Italian language
Published 1992 by Rizzoli Libri.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-17-15121-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 12750653
Trois hommes sur un bateau : Three men in a boat
191 pages
French language
Published May 7, 2003 by Presses Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-13275-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 3181394
Trois hommes dans un bateau : sans parler du chien !
288 pages
French language
Published 1990 by Flammarion.
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- 978-2-08-070536-5Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1189181
Trois hommes dans un bateau
French language
Published 1997 by Éditions Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-051613-1Copied ISBN!
Trois hommes dans un bateau
French language
Published 1983 by Hachette.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-01-009017-2Copied ISBN!
Trois hommes dans un bateau : sans oublier le chien, roman
French language
Published 2011 by Éditions Points.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7578-2238-8Copied ISBN!
Trois hommes dans un bateau
French language
Published 1989 by Éditions Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-050201-1Copied ISBN!
Trois hommes dans un bateau
French language
Published by Presses Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-02940-7Copied ISBN!
Trois Hommes Dans Un Bateau
French language
Published 1983 by Librairie générale française.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-253-04906-7Copied ISBN!
Trzej ludzie w jednej łodzi
95 pages
Polish, English language
Published 1922 by Lingwista.
Trzech starszych panów w jednej łodce (oprócz psa)
164 pages
Polish language
Published 1912 by Księgarnia Nakładowa M. Szczepkowskiego.
Trzech panów łódce (nie licząc psa)
248 pages
Polish language
Published 1956 by Wydawnictwo Iskry.
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