THREE MEN IN @ BOAT

BY: DISHA JAIN IX C

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THE FAMOUS AUTHOR
Jerome Kalpak Jerome, born on2 May 1859,
was an English writer and humorist, best
known for the comic travelogue Three Men
in a Boat (1887). His other works include
the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an
Idle Fellow, (1886) and Second Thoughts
of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the
Bummel; and several other novels. He
died on 14 June 1927.
 The book…

Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889,

is a humorous account by English writer
Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week
boating holiday on the Thames from
Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and
back to Kingston.
 CHARACTERS!!
MAIN...
JEROME GEORGE HARRIS
The narrator of the A friend of George
novel, most likely A good-natured and J., who joins
based on Jerome banker, and one of them on the trip.
himself. J. has a J.'s best friends. Of Although the
dog named the three men, he is novel's flashbacks
Montmorency, and portrayed as the only suggest that J. and
two friends, George one who is seriously Harris (full name
and Harris. He sees dedicated to his job. William Samuel
himself as He brings a banjo on Harris) have known
intelligent, hard- the boat trip and each other for a
working, and tries to learn how to long time, J.
competent, but his play it. actually dislikes
behavior in the Harris a great deal.
novel suggests He constantly
otherwise. Like his criticizes Harris
friends, J. is a for being lazy and
hypochondriac. uncultured.
 SUMMARY#
The story begins by introducing George, Harris, Jerome, and Jerome's
dog, a fox terrier called Montmorency. The men are spending an
evening in J.'s room, smoking and discussing illnesses from which they
fancy they suffer. They conclude that they are all suffering from
"overwork" and need a holiday. The three eventually decide on a
boating holiday up the River Thames, from Kingston upon Thames to
Oxford, during which they will camp. They set off the following
Saturday and couldn’t find the right train at Waterloo Station, so they
bribe a train driver to take his train to Kingston, where they collect the
hired boat and start the journey. The remainder of the story describes
their river journey and the incidents that occur. The most frequent
topics of J.'s anecdotes are river pastimes such as fishing and boating
and the difficulties they present to the inexperienced and unwary and
to the three men on previous boating trips. The book also includes
classic comedy set pieces, such as the story of two drunken men who
slide into the same bed in the dark, the Plaster of Paris trout in chapter
17, and the "Irish stew" – made by mixing most of the leftovers in the
party's food hamper.
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
AUTHOR: JEROME KALPAK JEROME

PUBLISHER: J.W.ARROWSMITH

PRINTING PRESS: PRINT (HARD

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YEAR OF PUBLISHING: 1889