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.
Format EPUB ● Pages 400 ● ISBN 9780141394459 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2806171 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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