Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

by Jerome K. Jerome, Jeremy Lewis (Introduction), Jeremy Lewis (Noted by)

Overview

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'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140437508
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/28/2000
Series:	Penguin Classics Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	49,569
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jeremy Lewis spent much of his life working in publishing. He is the author of two highly-praised volumes of autobiography, Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits, and of biographies of Cyril Connolly and Tobias Smollett.

Jeremy Lewis spent much of his life working in publishing. He is the author of two highly-praised volumes of autobiography, Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits, and of biographies of Cyril Connolly and Tobias Smollett.

Table of Contents

	Introduction
	Note on the Text
	Select Bibliography
	A Chronology of Jerome K. Jerome
	Three Men in a Boat	1
	Three Men on the Bummel	161
	Explanatory Notes	325