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 ...
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 ...
Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, became an instant success and has never been out of print. It ranks among The Guardian's top one hundred best English novels of all time
The book was a huge bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. Sales of the American edition reached a million copies, even though it was being sold there illegally!
When the book was first published, it was not liked by critics, who considered the writing flippant. The book professed no wish to improve the reader's mind, intent merely on sharing the excitement and fun of a boating holiday.
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 ...
The boat – builder himself came up then, and assured us, on his word, as a practical man,that thething really was aboat ... He said it, THE PRIDE OF THE THAMES, had been in use, just as it now stood (or rather asit now hung together), ...
The boat-builder himself came up then, and assured us, on his word, as a practical man, that the thing really was a ... He said it, The Pride of the Thames, had been in use, just as it now stood (or rather as it now hung together), ...
The adventures of these incompetent innocents abroad are magnified to epic proportions by the storyteller, J., whose narration gives the book not only a wonderful endearing freshness but also a series of hilarious moments of timeless comedy ...
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 ...
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.