Three Men in a Boat

Jerome K. Jerome's comic classic Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the Dog!) is unsinkable. One of the most widely read and beloved works of British fiction it has never fallen out of print since it first came out in 1889, but rather has been translated into many languages and even turned into a teleplay by Tom Stoppard.

The most ordinary circumstances turn hilarious as J., an idler who exhibits a "general disinclination to work of any kind," and his friends journey up the Thames River. Getting into many scrapes along the way, the friends consider "assaulting a policeman" just to have "a night's lodging in the station-house," when they get lost, but ultimately reject the proposition, fearful that he would hit them back without locking them up. The real scene stealer, though, is Montmorency, a small fox terrier who appears to be "born with about four times as much original sin in [him] as other dogs are."

作者簡介

By the time Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was fourteen years old, both of his parents had died leaving him and his two older sisters in utter poverty. His tried earning money as a clerk on England’s railway but preferred “the life whose glorious uncertainty almost rivals that of the turf,” that is, the theater. In 1885 he wrote his first book, On the Stage and Off, The Brief Career of a Would-Be Actor. However it wasn’t until 1889, when he published Three Men in a Boat, that he finally reached financial security. His other well-known work is the autobiography My Life and Times.