Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)
By Jerome K. Jerome
Cover: Boulter's Lock, Sunday Afternoon (1897), oil on canvas by Edward John Gregory (1850-1909) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1909)
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 a century after publication
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