(To say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome K. Jerome
The Collins Edition, illustrated by Elizabeth Odling
Jerome Klapka Jerome was a very prolific novelist and playwright at the end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth. Although he wrote many books, this is his most famous work, and in the more than 100 years since it was first published has never been out of print. Three Men In A Boat is the hilarious account of Jerome and two of his friends (together with a fox terrier named Montmorency) who hire a Thames River Skiff for a week's restorative journey on England's most famous waterway. It is a book well known indeed for its humour but it is probably much less known that Jerome manages to inject quite a lot of the history of early England into the tale as he and his friends pass by some of the most important and ancient sites in the kingdom. Read it for the laughs or read it for the history, but it is a book that should be read! We have republished this title in two editions because of the very good illustrations in each. The first is the Collins edition and the second is the Arrowsmith edition.
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