The classic and timeless humorous story, Three Men in a Boat, begins with the eponymous three men sitting around discussing the different needs in their lives. Our heroes come to the conclusion that they are indeed overworked and that a vacation is in order. Their brainstorming...
Laugh-out-loud with the pocket-sized edition of Three Men In A Boat. Jerome K. Jerome's humorous travelogue follows the misadventures of three friends as they embark on a boating holiday, providing endless entertainment in a compact format.
Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, became an instant success and has never been out of print. In its first twenty years alone, the book sold over a million copies worldwide. It has been adapted to films, TV, and radio shows, stage plays, and a musical, and influenced subsequent...
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.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...
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer 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...
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's...
A classic masterpiece of British humor since its first publication in 1889. The funny boating trip of three men - Jerome and his two friends Harris and George and their dog Montmorency - along the River Thames in Oxford, crossing the absurdities and traditions of late XIX century...
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,...
Initially meant to be a travelogue of a journey along the river Thames, Three Men in a Boat is a humorous tale of the adventures of three friends and their dog on a bizarre boat trip. A fun interplay of youthful folly, comic songs, camping stories, and an eccentric dog, the...
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?dition bilingue Anglais-Fran?ais avec le texte en regard. "Trois hommes dans un bateau (Sans oublier le chien !)" est un roman comique de Jerome K. Jerome, publi? en Angleterre en 1889.
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A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin Classics.
"You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows not why." If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop.If...
THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were - bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about...
I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it. Includes 66 of the original A. Frederics illustrations...
Originally intended as a serious travel guide, then streamlined into an amusing account of a farcical boating excursion on the Thames river, Three Men in a Boat is Jerome K. Jerome's controversially "vulgar" take on English history and recreation. A mix of social satire and Victorian...