Three men in a boat : to say nothing of the dog! & Three men on the bummel

Format:

Book

Title:

Three men in a boat : to say nothing of the dog! & Three men on the bummel

Other title(s):

3 men in a boat

Three men in a boat ; Three men on the bummel

Author:

Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927.

ISBN:

9780140437508

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1999.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 361 pages ; 20 cm.

Series title(s):

Penguin classics.

Contents:

Three men in a boat -- Three men on the bummel.

Summary:

When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks.

Subject(s):

Male friendship -- Fiction.

Boats and boating -- Fiction.

Humorous stories, English.

Thames River (England) -- Fiction.

Black Forest (Germany) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Thames River (England) -- Fiction.

Black Forest (Germany) -- Fiction.

England -- Thames River

Germany -- Black Forest

Genre:

Humorous fiction

Fiction

Action and adventure fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Added Author:

Lewis, Jeremy.

Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927. Three men on the bummel.

Added Title:

Three men on the bummel.

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Summary

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and proved so popular that Jerome reunited his now older - but not necessarily wiser - heroes in Three Men on the Bummel, for a picaresque bicycle tour of Germany. With their benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian 'clerking classes', both novels hilariously capture the spirit of their age.

Author Notes

Jerome K Jerome (1859-1927) became an actor and published a couple of volumes of humorous pieces and light essays about the theatre. He achieved lasting fame with THREE MEN IN A BOAT. He later went on to become one of the founders of the humorous magazine, The Idler, and continued to write articles and plays.
Jeremy Lewis has recently written a biography of Cyril Connolly and has edited the Raffles books.