# Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

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- Book: [Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerome-k-jerome/three-men-in-a-boat-and-three-men-on-the-bummel) ([Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerome-k-jerome/three-men-in-a-boat-and-three-men-on-the-bummel.md))
- Authors: [Jerome K. Jerome](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerome-k-jerome)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-750-8
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2005-05-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and proved so popular that Jerome reunited his now older - but not necessarily wiser - heroes in Three Men on the Bummel, for a picaresque bicycle tour of Germany. With their benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian 'clerking classes', both novels hilariously capture the spirit of their age.