THREE MEN IN A BOAT and THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL
Fiction & Literature, Humorous, Short Stories, Romance
| Author: | Jerome K. Jerome | ISBN: | 1230000096338 |
| Publisher: | iSe Classic House | Publication: | January 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jerome K. Jerome |
| ISBN: | 1230000096338 |
| Publisher: | iSe Classic House |
| Publication: | January 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
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
-----------------------------------------------
Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most 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 to the 1957 Everyman's edition says "Like most sequels, it has been compared unfavourably with its parent story, but it was only a little less celebrated than Three Men in a Boat and was for long used as a school book in Germany." Jeremy Nicholas of the Jerome K. Jerome Society regards it as a "comic masterpiece" containing "set pieces" as funny or funnier than those in its predecessor, but, taken as a whole, not as satisfying due to the lack of as strong a unifying thread
Features:
• 80 Classic illustrations by A. Frederics and L. Raven Hill and other text decorations.
• Active TOC: You can navigate through the entire collection via a main table of contents as well as each book's individual chapter contents.
• Re-arranged texts for the best display on Kobo, PC and every e-Reader device.
Bonus: Free Audiobook link for download at the end of the book (just click to download)
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
-----------------------------------------------
Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most 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 to the 1957 Everyman's edition says "Like most sequels, it has been compared unfavourably with its parent story, but it was only a little less celebrated than Three Men in a Boat and was for long used as a school book in Germany." Jeremy Nicholas of the Jerome K. Jerome Society regards it as a "comic masterpiece" containing "set pieces" as funny or funnier than those in its predecessor, but, taken as a whole, not as satisfying due to the lack of as strong a unifying thread
Features:
• 80 Classic illustrations by A. Frederics and L. Raven Hill and other text decorations.
• Active TOC: You can navigate through the entire collection via a main table of contents as well as each book's individual chapter contents.
• Re-arranged texts for the best display on Kobo, PC and every e-Reader device.
Bonus: Free Audiobook link for download at the end of the book (just click to download)
