Three Men on the Bummel

by JeromeKJerome (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $13.93

  Some time after their eventful trip on the river, chronicled in Three Men in a Boat , George, Harris and J. suffer a renewed attack of itchy feet and decide to take off on a 'bummel'. However they find that they get into more than a few scrapes on their cycling jaunt in Germany. Learning to cope with perilous tasks such as purchasing a cushion, taking a bicycle off a train, map-reading into the mountains - not to mention crossing the road - they learn that perhaps a change isn't always as good as a rest.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $3.25

  'I did not intend to write a funny book, at first' wrote Jerome J. Jerome of Three Men in a Boat , which has since become a comic classic. When J. the narrator, George, Harris, and Montmorency the dog, set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times.The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created a new mass readership, and Jerome's book was especially popular among the 'clerking classes' who longed to be 'free from that fretful haste, that vehement striving, that is every day becoming more and more the bane of nineteenth-century life.' So popular did it prove that Jerome reunited his heroes for a bicycle tour of Germany. Despite some sharp, and with hindsight, prophetic observations of the country, Three Men on the Bummel describes an equally picaresque journey constrained only 'by the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started'.