Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Three Men in a Boat
- Publisher:
- Jeremy Lewis
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 11/1999
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780140437508
- Item number:
- 5141757
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2000
- Weight:
- 280 g
- Format:
- 196 x 128 mm
- Thickness:
- 19 mm
- Release date:
- 25.11.1999
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Description
When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times. The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created a new mass readership, and Jerome's book was especially popular among the 'clerking classes' who longed to be 'free from that fretful haste, that vehement striving, that is every day becoming more and more the bane of nineteenth-century life.'
So popular did it prove that Jerome reunited his heroes for a bicycle tour of Germany. Despite some sharp, and with hindsight, prophetic observations of the country, Three Men on the Bummel describes an equally picaresque journey constrained only 'by the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started'.
Blurb
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.
Biography (Jerome K. Jerome)
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927), geb. in der mittelenglischen Grafschaft Staffordshire, arbeitete zunächst bei der Eisenbahn, dann als Reporter und Schauspieler. Er war Mitherausgeber des 'Idler' und verfasste populäre humoristische Erzählungen.
