Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog - Softcover

Jerome, Jerome Klapka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1494252155 ISBN 13: 9781494252151

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog." The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.

About this title

About the Author:

JEROME K JEROME (1859-1927) became an actor and his first books, ON STAGE AND OFF and THE IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW, were about the theatre. Turning to writing as a profession, Jerome published his most famous novel, THREE MEN IN A BOAT in 1889, with a sequel, THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL in 1900. He died in 1927.

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About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1494252155
• ISBN 13: 9781494252151
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160