![]() He worked as a teacher, an actor and a journalist. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. 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. Jerome wrote the story after his honeymoon, which he and his wife spent on the River Thames. It is a humorous book about three men (George, Harris and the narrator) and a dog travelling on the river Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. Jerome (1859-1927) wrote the book: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). Jerome, an account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames. ![]() Three men in a boat, the famous and humorous book written by the English author Jerome K. ![]()
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