Three Men in a Boat (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): (To Say Nothing of the Dog!)
By Jerome K. Jerome.
Description
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. 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 to 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 seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on J...
ISBN(s)
0760757569, 9780760757567
