Three Men in a Boat
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!), published 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over. The three men were based on Jerome himself and two friends (one of whom went on to become a manager of Barclays Bank), but the dog was entirely fictional.
One of the best things about Three men in a boat is how undated it appears to modern readers. The jokes seems fresh and witty even today.
Quotes from Three Men in a Boat.
"I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. "
"George goes to sleep in a bank from ten till four each day except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside at 2"
There was a not-so-successful sequel, about a cycling tour in Europe, entitled Three Men on the Bummel.
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