false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191376844m/4926.jpg 4926 3 `Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat). Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s, where the fashionable steam-launches of river swells encounter the hired skiffs of city clerks. The medley of social vignettes, farcical incidents, descriptions of river fashions, and reflections on the Thames's history, is interspersed with humorous anecdotes told by a natural raconteur. Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade, a break from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later; their cycling tour in the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze, affords Jerome the opportunity for a light-hearted scrutiny of German social customs at a time of increasing general interest in a country that he loved. This account of middle-aged Englishmen abroad is spiced with typical Jeromian humour. 3727689 1889 Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel total:168|5:67|4:61|3:32|2:6|1:2| 168 689 257 33 0 2 false false Wed Jan 23 05:35:36 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 05:35:36 -0800 2008 the classics of English literature in Turkmen textbooks. Turkmen children will ask you if you've heard of it, they'll write essays about how they like to read it (baldfaced lies), and some will be genuinely confused if you don't list Jerome K. Jerome as one of your favorit...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 08 15:29:40 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 20 08:17:17 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 15:29:40 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 12:49:39 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 17:28:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 06:47:24 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 08:17:22 -0700 2009 Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog because I was going to read Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog and wanted to know what the relation was. Three Men … is the story of three friends and a dog on a boat trip up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford, To Say Nothing … incorpo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 10:30:54 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 10:20:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 23:19:47 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 15:55:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 24 15:24:51 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 16:20:59 -0700 2008
"Three Men in a Boat" is a delightful read. Recounting the adventures of 3 friends...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 12:02:33 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 11:53:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 27 21:13:58 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 21:15:11 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 10:31:20 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 08:57:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 03 11:34:40 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 11:36:15 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Feb 11 10:09:58 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 10:11:27 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 08:40:55 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 08:41:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 09:18:32 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 09:19:16 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 1978 Fri Jun 26 15:36:19 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 15:38:09 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Jan 10 13:14:08 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 13:14:34 -0800 2009 4 0 true false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 10:32:38 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 10:42:22 -0700 2007
Followed up by the s...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 09:45:25 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 09:45:25 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jun 19 19:28:15 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 19:28:59 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon May 14 15:02:12 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 15:19:51 -0700 2007 Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, which I read because it had been recommended by Connie Willis in To Say Nothing of the Dog. One of my favorite scenes in Three Men on the Bummel has them trying to use an English ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4926