He breathes, and it puts the fire out.Īt dinner-time he creeps in under the table, lies there for awhile, and then gets up suddenly the first intimation we have of his movements being given by the table, which appears animated by a desire to turn somersaults. He wags his tail, and the room looks as if a devastating army had marched through it. He stretches himself, and over go two chairs and a what-not. He means well, but this house is not his size. Gustavus Adolphus (they call him “Gusty” down-stairs for short) is a very good sort of dog when he is in the middle of a large field or on a fairly extensive common, but I won’t have him indoors.
The book continues to be praised for how undated it appears to modern readers and following its overwhelming success, Jerome published a sequel about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the Bummel.What I’ve suffered from them this morning no tongue can tell.
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. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. Period ownership inscription.įirst published in 1889, Jerome K. Second state with ’11 Quay Street’ (first state is without the 11) to the title page. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by A. $300.00 Item Number: 138348įirst edition, second state of Jerome’s humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
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