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The classic and timeless humorous story, Three Men in a Boat, begins with the eponymous three men sitting around discussing the different needs in their lives. Our heroes come to the conclusion that they are indeed overworked and that a vacation is in order. Their brainstorming was fruitless until they came up with the idea of taking a boating vacation up the River Thames. Thus begins the famous journey, whose lore has now spanned three centuries. Not to mention their most dependable companion— their dog Montmorency! This classic edition is a must-have for all! • It is decorated with gilded edges and beautiful endpapers • It is perfect for gifting and will be a good addition to any library • The characters and amusing plots will keep the readers hooked • The tales have been delighting children and adults alike for generations • The story has been translated into many languages and have undergone several adaptations over the decades

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fingerprint! Publishing (September 1, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354407021
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354407024
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.47 x 5.79 x 8.82 inches
Reviewer: Prudence Gummidge
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lively reading of a very fun book
Review: My kids enjoyed this so much when we got it from the library that I decided we needed to own a copy. It's perfect for car trips and relaxing at bedtime.This is a very well-produced reading of a classic light read. It doesn't seem to have the extremely loud and quiet parts that make some audiobooks difficult to hear in the car or with ambient noise.The narrator's voice is well-suited to the story, the kind of voice that would also be good as Bertie Wooster.The production is rounded out with little musical passages between each chapter.

Reviewer: Jono Walker
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Hilarious Hoot - Perfect Summer Reading
Review: Ours is a world filled with Facebook friends and e-mail contact lists. We bombard one another with an alphabet soup of abbreviated sentiments in pithy 140-character Tweets. With the push of a button we can download any book we want from the Internet and the fastest growing category in online literary magazines is "Flash Fiction" where no piece is allowed to exceed 300 words. In just a matter of hours jumbo jets can deliver us to exotic vacation destinations all over the globe, and when we get to where we're going we bring our i-Pads with us to the pool. We're wired, we're on the go and above all else we're in a hurry.So how is it I so greatly enjoyed Three Men in a Boat, Jerome Jerome's hilarious account of his fortnight holiday in Victorian England? How could this guy's rowboat journey from Kingston to Oxford on the Thames with his two good buddies, a Fox Terrier and a droll, understated sense of humor that requires two or three background passages of Flash Fiction length just to get the reader to any given punch line ring so true? Well, it's really REALLY funny for one thing. You just need to relax and go with the flow (no pun intended). Even we Americans who will miss much of the historical and societal references and haven't ever seen the Thames other than in photographs of Tower Bridge in London will appreciate the humor. For another thing the book is a well written travelogue of a picturesque piece of the planet in a bygone era that can still be seen so long as you squint past some Motorways and a few Tesco Supermarkets. I had fun tracking Jerome's progress on Google Earth and was heartened to find bits of the present-day landscape coinciding at least vaguely with his beautifully descriptive prose.But perhaps the best thing about this quirky little book is that in spite of all the differences between Victorian England and our fast paced Information Age it holds up astoundingly well. Three Men in a Boat was a hot seller when first published in 1889 and hasn't ever gone out of print. It was funny when first written, it's funny today and, I suspect it will be funny 100 years from now because the humor translates on such an essentially human level.The relationship between the three guy buddies - the banter and the teasing - is thoroughly recognizable. You can picture the same three buddies stumbling about on a camping trip or out on the golf course today. The opening riff where the narrator talks about how the marketing blurb on the bottle of liver pills took him to a museum library and eventually to a full catalogue of human ailments (which led him to believe he had symptoms of just about every disease known to science) is particularly hilarious. Anyone who has ever scrolled through WebMd will readily relate.And to all of you reading this post at the office, here's a quote from the book that typifies the humor and just might apply to your present circumstances:"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."I highly recommend this book. I give it 4 American stars and 5 British stars because I know just enough about my wife's home country to believe that anyone from Jolly Old England will almost certainly find themselves frequently piddling in their britches over it. Bring it with you this summer on vacation. It is absolutely the perfect book to read after a day of too much sun and an evening of a few too many margaritas!

Reviewer: C. Ebeling
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Great Find--Read It!
Review: I entered into THREE MEN IN A BOAT with the understanding that it was a laugh riot. At first I thought, yes it is witty in the extreme, but in places it is a tad Victorian cute, the forerunner of today's sitcoms and stand-up comics. The more I got into it, though, the more I appreciated it on many levels. Verdict: It is fresh stuff 115 years later, it is very funny, and it deserves classic, not backlist, status.THREE MEN IN A BOAT is classified as fiction but not for the usual reasons. Had it been written after 1995, say, it would have probably been called creative nonfiction. What Jerome did was to synthesize many occasions shared with his real life pals into a "travelogue" of a boating trip taken up the Thames, from Kingston into the Reading area. This premise offers up countless occasions for mishaps, which Jerome milks for all they are worth. In those moments in which something is not happening, he tells related stories, or performs a stand-up comic riff. As he and his mates pass landmarks along the river, he offers up historical information, colored of course with his views. Apparently, England lays claim to Elizabeth I being everywhere much as the eastern United States claims Washington slept in every town. It is ironic to read his sighs over modern life: if he only knew that urban sprawl had only begun and weather forecasting has not improved that much in a hundred years. In a positively clairvoyant moment, he presages the Antiques Roadshow mania of "2000 and odd" while speculating if the lowly implements and souvenirs of daily life would become the treasures of the future. The insights into Victorian preoccupations are priceless.

Reviewer: val.f
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Love this little book.

Reviewer: Tresoldi Emanuele
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bel libro, un classico.

Reviewer: rothkehlchen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A masterpiece of British humour! Intelligent, philosophical, poetic. It may teach us to laugh more about ourselves than about others...which would be a great improvement for social life in general. Will read or listen to it again more than once, to cure my several "housemaid's knees".

Reviewer: Alexander Ekzhanov
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good edition of Jerome K. Jerome classic

Reviewer: HASHIR IDREES
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome is a funny and charming tale of three friends and a dog on a boating trip. It's filled with humor and vivid descriptions. Highly recommended!