Three Men in a Boat
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4.2 • 80 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Three Men, George, Harris, Jerome of the Merry & Lazy Variety of well-to-do Young men of the Victorian Era feel so depressed with their routine & assumed illness (Munchausen Syndrome) that they decide to go on an Idyllic Cruise along London Thames River for a fortnight, in an equally depressing soggy weather. They pack their food, clothes & the fictional dog, Montmorency, in a small boat. They travel the Country along the Thames. Right from the word ’go’, nothing goes right for them. This book narrates what all they are forced to encounter & endure in their jolly boat ride.
Customer Reviews
An excellent read
I thoroughly enjoyed Three Men in a Boat - it's age has not made it any less funny, nor has it's description of a jaunt up the Thames been any less enthralling - a great book to settle down to on a rainy night!
A delight, a history, and (almost certainly) Wodehouse’s inspiration for Mr Mulliner.
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Bradford St, Walsall. Was partly named after a Hungarian revolutionary, and wrote 2 of the funniest, and broadest, books about the English at the end of Victoria’s reign (the other book being Three Men on the Bummel. A frighteningly prescient view of Germany before the Great War). The man is worth remembrance, and a read.
I have just finished rereading Three Men in a Boat for the first time in decades. I skipped over some of the most famous comic passages, because I remembered them well enough; but the depth of the insights, and a breezy style long lost, gripped me.
I also have to praise the social commentary. Well past Dickens’ melodrama. Well before the handwringing of Lawrence or Orwell. He just narrates incidents; one of which (concerning a woman’s suicide) will forever raise this book above the lazy sculling of most comic writing.
Loved this
Just brilliant British humour, some things will always be funny no matter how old. Laughed out loud but might not be taking a boat out for a while.