Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on a Bummel (Wordsworth Classics)

by Dr Keith Carabine (Series Editor), Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Professor Cedric Watts M.A Ph.D. (Introduction)

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  Illustrated
  1992

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  Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed, televised and imitated. The adventures and misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends and their pugnacious dog, Montmorency, provide rich humour, shrewd observations, lyrical reflections, and, predominantly, genially ironic perceptions of human fallibility. The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, reunites the three friends for their 'Bummel' ('roaming or wandering') through Germany. The results vary from the seductively titillating to the outrageously farcical; and subsequent history has laden the narrative with ironies.

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  Paperback
  1982

  $3.25

  Describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford.

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  Hardcover
  2000

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  Harris, George and J. are three Victorian idlers: amiable buffons who love their food, their drink and bachelor home comforts. They're none to keen on work either. Deciding they need a change of scene from their communal hyperchondria, what could be more relaxing than a trip up the river Thames?