Jerome K. Jerome is without doubt best known today for his comic masterpiece "Three Men in a Boat". More than a century after its first publication it is still making people laugh. But Jerome was very much more than a one-book wonder, writing plays, essays, short stories, sketches and other novels. [...]

One of the best-loved classics of all time, "Three Men in a Boat" is a hilarious account of three friends and their dog on a holiday trip on the Thames in England. Harris, George, Jerome (the narrator), and Montmorency (the fox terrier) decide to take a break from their tedious routine, to restore t[...]

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 t[...]

'Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat). Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expeditio[...]

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.' Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier[...]

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat" includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in "Penguin Classics". Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide tha[...]

"Three Men in a Boat" is the story of three Englishman who pile into a boat with food, clothes, and a fox terrier named Montmorency and set off on the Thames to see the English countryside. "Three Men in a Boat" is a first-class comic masterpiece. As the three well-to-do upper class gentleman set ou[...]