Three Men in a Boat.: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Popular Classics) von Jerome K. Jerome

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 192 Seiten; Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Verlag: Penguin
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780140621334

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, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian 'clerking classes', it hilariously captured the spirit of its age

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