Three Men in a Boat

Three men in a boat ( to say nothing of the Dog) (Original Title: Three Men in a Boat ), published in 1889, is a humorous story of Jerome K. Jerome on a boat trip on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.

The book was originally as a serious guide, planned with stories about the history of places along the route, but the humorous descriptions ultimately gained the upper hand. The three men are based on Jerome himself and two of his friends ( George and Harris). The dog Montmorency is a pure invention, but has - as Jerome remarked - " a lot in common with me."

Jerome uses an associative narrative style. He takes individual events of the travel arrangements and the journey itself as an opportunity to detail stories and anecdotes to tell that have little or nothing to do with the trip. Therefore, the journey is only the framework for action and occurs as regards the extent of the overall work, compared with the interspersed anecdotes clearly in the background.

The narrative provided title and several motifs for the German feature film of the same name from 1961 with Hans -Joachim Kulenkampff, Heinz Erhardt, Walter Giller, Willy Reichert, among others

The not so successful sequel is titled Three men on tour ride (Three Men on the tour ) and is about a bicycle tour through Germany.

Quotes

• " I like work very much: it fascinates me I can sit for hours here and watch. ".

• " George sleeps every day from ten to four in a bank, except Saturday, on which day you wake him up to two and sets out the door. "

• " Every person has what he does not want to have, and what he would have liked to have others. "