EAN: 9780140437508

THREE MEN IN A BOAT AND THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL...

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'.  For more than seventy years  Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic
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translations by award-winning translators.

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