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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,[2] 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 seeming 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[2] 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.[Note This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.
| ISBN-13 | 9781717486745 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1717486746 |
| Weight | 0.66 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 10.00 x 8.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $7.60 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 108 pages |
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Published On | 2018-04-27 |
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