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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

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Publisher Comments:

"I had the general symptoms, the chief among them being a disinclination to work of any kind."

So begin the hilarious misadventures of a merry, but scandalously lazy band of well-to-do young men-and a plucky and rather world-weary fox terrier named Montmorency-on an idyllic cruise along the River Thames. Feeling seedy, muses one of them dreamily, "What we want is rest." What they find instead is one hapless catastrophe after another. Soggy weather, humiliating dunkings, the irritating behavior of small boats and the "contrariness of teakettles" are just a few of the barbarisms our genteel heroes are forced to endure. But which a delighted reader can only sing, Hooray!

First published in 1889, Three Men in a Boat was an instant success, and Jerome has been compared to comic master P.G. Wodehouse.

Synopsis:

Three Men in a Boat is the comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford, providing along the way brilliant snapshots of London's playground in the late 1800s.

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nancyhjohnson, March 15, 2007 (view all comments by nancyhjohnson)
This is way funnier than any book by a 19th-century Englishman has any right to be!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780765341617
Subtitle:
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Author:
Jerome, Jerome K.
Publisher:
Tor Classics
Location:
New York, NY
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Humorous Stories
Subject:
Dogs
Subject:
Young men
Subject:
Boats and boating
Subject:
Thames River
Edition Number:
1st Tor ed.
Edition Description:
Complete and Unabridged
Series:
Tor Classics
Series Volume:
no. 57
Publication Date:
October 2001
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
6.77x4.22x.73 in. .27 lbs.

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