1889 1st Edtn/2nd Prnt THREE MEN IN A BOAT By Jerome K. Jerome Illus. A. Fredericks (Frederick Arthur Hipp) Good Classic Literature

1889 1st Edition 2nd Printing, 
THREE MEN IN A BOAT
(To Say Nothing of the Dog)
By Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). 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, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success followed. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards.

Illustrated By: A. Fredericks (Frederick Arthur Hipp)
A. Fredericks (Frederick Arthur Hipp) [1848 - 1929] was a descendant of the official baker to King George III. Born in London studied in Reading School of Art. After, graduating Arthur returned to London where he trained as a stained-glass artist.

Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: J.W. Arrowsmith, London

octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 315

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 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. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog".



SKU: BTETM0002306
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg