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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog): illustrated, with a detailed map and notes Kindle Edition

by Jerome K. Jerome (Author), A. Frederics (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 6,056 ratings
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• Digitized edition with original illustrations (Kindle-friendly and easy on the eyes). It includes all of the illustrations by A. Frederics.
• Includes a NEW MAP of locations in the book around the Thames!
• A neat table of contents (TOC) for faster page-turning experience.
• Fonts have been optimized and tested for display on Kindle and other e-readers
• This is the complete and unabridged edition of the original text with footnotes. Proof-read and free of errors, this is hands down THE best version you will find for your Kindle.

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 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.
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The book was meant to be a serious travel guide...but Jerome's rambling anecdotes and humorous take on travelers J., Harris, and George--and J.'s feckless fox terrier, Montmorency--turned it into something far rarer: an honest account of male friendship.

-- "The Guardian (London)"

Wonderfully fresh and funny...Jerome's writing triumphantly stands the test of time.

-- "Daily Telegraph (London)"

About the Author

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927), English humorist, novelist, and playwright, was born in Staffordshire and brought up in London. After a series of jobs including clerk, schoolmaster, actor, and journalist, he became joint editor of the Idler in 1892 and launched his own twopenny weekly, To-Day. His magnificently ridiculous Three Men in a Boat (1889) established itself as a humorous classic of the whimsical. His other books include Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886); Three Men on the Bummel (1900); Paul Kelver (1902); the morality play The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1907); and his autobiography, My Life and Times (1926).

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JBTG0FK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (March 28, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 28, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1985 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 8826419027
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 6,056 ratings

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Hilarious read. I love the character "who exhibits a general disinclination to work of any kind". Makes me wish I knew these people personally. An awesome read and a fantastic buy. If you appreciate a dry, British sense of humor, you will appreciate this book.
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C. Ebeling
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Find--Read It!
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2004
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I entered into THREE MEN IN A BOAT with the understanding that it was a laugh riot. At first I thought, yes it is witty in the extreme, but in places it is a tad Victorian cute, the forerunner of today's sitcoms and stand-up comics. The more I got into it, though, the more I appreciated it on many levels. Verdict: It is fresh stuff 115 years later, it is very funny, and it deserves classic, not backlist, status.
THREE MEN IN A BOAT is classified as fiction but not for the usual reasons. Had it been written after 1995, say, it would have probably been called creative nonfiction. What Jerome did was to synthesize many occasions shared with his real life pals into a "travelogue" of a boating trip taken up the Thames, from Kingston into the Reading area. This premise offers up countless occasions for mishaps, which Jerome milks for all they are worth. In those moments in which something is not happening, he tells related stories, or performs a stand-up comic riff. As he and his mates pass landmarks along the river, he offers up historical information, colored of course with his views. Apparently, England lays claim to Elizabeth I being everywhere much as the eastern United States claims Washington slept in every town. It is ironic to read his sighs over modern life: if he only knew that urban sprawl had only begun and weather forecasting has not improved that much in a hundred years. In a positively clairvoyant moment, he presages the Antiques Roadshow mania of "2000 and odd" while speculating if the lowly implements and souvenirs of daily life would become the treasures of the future. The insights into Victorian preoccupations are priceless.
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Jono Walker
4.0 out of 5 stars A Hilarious Hoot - Perfect Summer Reading
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2012
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Ours is a world filled with Facebook friends and e-mail contact lists. We bombard one another with an alphabet soup of abbreviated sentiments in pithy 140-character Tweets. With the push of a button we can download any book we want from the Internet and the fastest growing category in online literary magazines is "Flash Fiction" where no piece is allowed to exceed 300 words. In just a matter of hours jumbo jets can deliver us to exotic vacation destinations all over the globe, and when we get to where we're going we bring our i-Pads with us to the pool. We're wired, we're on the go and above all else we're in a hurry.

So how is it I so greatly enjoyed Three Men in a Boat, Jerome Jerome's hilarious account of his fortnight holiday in Victorian England? How could this guy's rowboat journey from Kingston to Oxford on the Thames with his two good buddies, a Fox Terrier and a droll, understated sense of humor that requires two or three background passages of Flash Fiction length just to get the reader to any given punch line ring so true? Well, it's really REALLY funny for one thing. You just need to relax and go with the flow (no pun intended). Even we Americans who will miss much of the historical and societal references and haven't ever seen the Thames other than in photographs of Tower Bridge in London will appreciate the humor. For another thing the book is a well written travelogue of a picturesque piece of the planet in a bygone era that can still be seen so long as you squint past some Motorways and a few Tesco Supermarkets. I had fun tracking Jerome's progress on Google Earth and was heartened to find bits of the present-day landscape coinciding at least vaguely with his beautifully descriptive prose.

But perhaps the best thing about this quirky little book is that in spite of all the differences between Victorian England and our fast paced Information Age it holds up astoundingly well. Three Men in a Boat was a hot seller when first published in 1889 and hasn't ever gone out of print. It was funny when first written, it's funny today and, I suspect it will be funny 100 years from now because the humor translates on such an essentially human level.

The relationship between the three guy buddies - the banter and the teasing - is thoroughly recognizable. You can picture the same three buddies stumbling about on a camping trip or out on the golf course today. The opening riff where the narrator talks about how the marketing blurb on the bottle of liver pills took him to a museum library and eventually to a full catalogue of human ailments (which led him to believe he had symptoms of just about every disease known to science) is particularly hilarious. Anyone who has ever scrolled through WebMd will readily relate.

And to all of you reading this post at the office, here's a quote from the book that typifies the humor and just might apply to your present circumstances:

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

I highly recommend this book. I give it 4 American stars and 5 British stars because I know just enough about my wife's home country to believe that anyone from Jolly Old England will almost certainly find themselves frequently piddling in their britches over it. Bring it with you this summer on vacation. It is absolutely the perfect book to read after a day of too much sun and an evening of a few too many margaritas!
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maclaugh
5.0 out of 5 stars fun adventures on the river with a dog
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2024
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An illustrated short series of sketches, always mentioned as a thing to please. Surely was a nice series of sketches making a fast read.
Recommend without reservation.
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John Belbeck
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, articulate and hilarious
Reviewed in Canada on December 28, 2022
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Written over a century ago, this incredibly delightful and brilliantly eloquent book is medicine for your spirit and intellect.
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Mile73
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfetto
Reviewed in Italy on April 24, 2024
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Parth Shah
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the classic books for humor
Reviewed in India on March 10, 2024
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Worth every single minute spent reading this book.
Its a classic when it comes to humour.
Hilarious. Short. Re-readable for sure.
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Thomas Berirne
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2024
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Lovely book. Simple, amusing, story that is perfect antidote to our cynical times.
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rothkehlchen
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent humour! Could not help laughing out loud
Reviewed in Germany on December 13, 2023
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A masterpiece of British humour! Intelligent, philosophical, poetic. It may teach us to laugh more about ourselves than about others...which would be a great improvement for social life in general. Will read or listen to it again more than once, to cure my several "housemaid's knees".
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