Three Men in a Boat
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Jerome K. Jerome...Thames "in a little boat," a fact which was to have a significant influence on his next, and most important work, Three Men in a Boat. ''Three Men in a Boat'' and later career Jerome sat down to write Three Men in a Boat as soon as the... In this article: Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, Thames, Walsall, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men on the Bummel, and Robert Barr |
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Guardian | October 16, 2009
Dara O Briain: Appeal of rugby is lost in translation
...from Limerick. I'm here, at the home of Munster Rugby, along with Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones, filming another one of those Three Men in a Boat documentaries the Beeb get us to do to fulfil its quota for gentle comedy travelogues, the...
In this article: Ireland, Limerick, Tokyo, World Cup, JavaScript, and Griff Rhys Jones
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Wikipedia | October 14, 2009
Three Men in a Boat
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,...
In this article: Jerome K. Jerome, Dog, River Thames, Connie Willis, and To Say Nothing of the Dog
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Telegraph.co.uk - Health | September 28, 2009
Sir Terry Pratchett interview
...the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like Three Men in a Boat. ' As to the question that his hordes of devoted fans never tire of asking, 'Where...
In this article: Terry Pratchett, Alzheimer's, Discworld, Nation, Suicide, Unseen Academicals, The Colour of Magic, Alzheimer's Research Trust, and Punch
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Rivers made famous in Wind and the Willows and Winnie the Pooh fail ecological test
Other rivers famous in literature that are judged to be below standard are the Thames between Kingston and Oxford that appears in Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome and the Severn that inspired Spencer's Fairy Queen. Ralph Underhill,...
In this article: Winnie the Pooh, Tarka the Otter, Wind in the Willows, Thames, Britain, Christopher Robin, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and EU
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Michael Palin: he's not a Messiah just a very nice man
...Palin: I've been anxious about everything I've ever done. I kept thinking 'Why me? Am I really up to the job?' Michael Palin in 1975's 'Three Men in a Boat' (with Stephen Moore, left, and 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' star Tim Curry) Scenes...
In this article: Michael Palin, Monty Python, Ipswich, Terry Jones, John Cleese, DVD, Pineapple, and Jerome K Jerome
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Three Men on the Bummel
...famous work, ''Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) ''. The sequel brings back the three companions who figured in Three Men in a Boat, this time on a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest. D. C. Browning's introduction...
In this article: Three Men on the Bummel, Germany, Jeremy Nicholas, River Thames, and A Tramp Abroad
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Wales Online | July 18, 2009
Griff Rhys Jones has no regrets over leaving comedy behind
...history will reinforce Jones' image as a champion of our heritage, following his TV series Restoration, Why Poetry Matters, Mountain and Three Men In A Boat, and his brief stint as president of the now defunct Civic Trust England. But...
In this article: Griff Rhys Jones, Pamela Stephenson, Rowan Atkinson, Mountain, Michael Palin, Britain, and Cardiff
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Independent.co.uk - Books | June 20, 2009
Caught by the River, ed Jeff Barrett, Robin Turner and Andrew Walsh
...becoming transformed. Yet British literature is already full of models for writing the river-run: from the comedic archetypes of, say, Three Men in a Boat; to rivers being in and out of time - Heart of Darkness makes the Thames, sullen in...
In this article: Thames, Jarvis Cocker, and Heavenly Records
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Picture-mapping your summer
"Three Men in a Boat" by Scorchamac, taken in Ullapool, Scotland, and added to our Flickr group. See the map. Our geo-tagged Flickr group has received some excellent photographs of the British summer so far... here's a selection of our...
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Daily Mail | May 02, 2009
Pictured: The ever-changing face of Old Father Thames from its source to the sea
...out in flags and streamers, the riverbank teeming with revellers and student spectators Literary praise: In his classic novel Three Men In A Boat, it was this part of the journey, between Maidenhead and Marlow, that Jerome K. Jerome...
In this article: Thames, Radcot Bridge, Ash tree, and Thames & Hudson
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
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. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers, the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.
The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to 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 is just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.
Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, entitled Three Men on the Bummel.
A similar book was published seven years before Jerome's work, entitled Three in Norway (by two of them) by J. A. Lees and W. J. Clutterbuck. It tells of three men on an expedition into the wild Jotunheimen in Norway.
- Name:
- Three Men in a Boat
- Country of Origin:
- United Kingdom
- Genre:
- Comedy novel
- Written By:
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Published By:
- J. W. Arrowsmith
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardback
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- 1889
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