TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jerome,Jerome K.
AU  - Harvey,Geoffrey,ed
TI  - Three men in a boat, three men on the bummel
T2  - Oxford World's Classics
SN  - 9780199671762
U1  - 823.8 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford 
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Male friendship
KW  - English fiction
KW  - English literature
KW  - Boats and boating
KW  - England--Thames River
KW  - Dogs
KW  - Young men--Travel
KW  - Germany--Black Forest
N1  - "First published in 1889"--T.p. verso
N2  - Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s, where the fashionable steam-launches of river swells encounter the hired skiffs of city clerks. The medley of social vignettes, farcical incidents, descriptions of river fashions, and reflections on the Thames's history, is interspersed with humorous anecdotes told by a natural raconteur.

Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade, a break from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later; their cycling tour in the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze, affords Jerome the opportunity for a light-hearted scrutiny of German social customs at a time of increasing general interest in a country that he loved. This account of middle-aged Englishmen abroad is spiced with typical Jeromian humour
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