The appeal of the book lies in its humor. The description of Hampton court maze is the most perfect English piece of humor.

The most humorous incident was when Jerome describes her Aunt Podger week long refuge to her mother’s home when Uncle Podger is busy with “little things” in house. The dog is the best character, the little things he do brings laughter and craziness. The third is Harris who has a printing business in London and is even more boring, who did nothing except to get excessively drunk and lacks romance and poetry.

He is boring at times but in the boating expedition, he is always boisterous carrying a banjo. The other character George is a banker who follows strict routine. The way he describes his two friends fill the readers with laughter. Jerome(the narrator) is the central character who is a freelance journalist and is always confident and jovial he believes his other two friends are boring. This is a story of everything but nothing. They start off on Saturday, rent a boat from Kingston and while picking up George from work they head out on a boating trip.īetween this, story propels into a comical sketch of boating and hilarious mishaps. The three of them concur of being overworked are in a dire need of a vacation. Jerome, often called ‘J’ along with his real life two friends George and Harris and fictional character dog: Montmorency, go on to a two week long sea voyage. A story that revolves on Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. It is a story of three men who need a vacation from their “overwork” and daily humdrums of life. The cover included a book paper cover with a sketch of boat and three men that gives us the insight into what the character are about to experience. Yet, the 21st century appreciates the humor and laugh at the wittiest jokes that increased the target readership. This 19th century novel was written for middle class Victorians. This was intended to be a serious travel guide hut turned out to be a comic novel. Jerome was an English writer and humorist best known for the comic novel.

A very English form of humor full of the self-deprecation that goes with the humor of that period.

A complete send up from start to finish of three “chaps” in the true sense of word. Book : Three Men in a Boat Writer Jerome K.

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