Price: ₹110
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9789384403645
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-0ropes, unreliable weather-0forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks -0 not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-0terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and proved so popular that Jerome reunited his now older -0 but not necessarily wiser -0 heroes in Three Men on the Bummel, for a picaresque bicycle tour of Germany. With their benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-0Victorian 'clerking classes', both novels hilariously capture the spirit of their age.