Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s, where the fashionable steam-launches of river swells encounter the hired skiffs of city clerks. The medley of social vignettes, farcical incidents, descriptions of river fashions, and reflections on the Thames's history, is interspersed with humorous anecdotes told by a natural raconteur. Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade, a break from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later; their cycling tour in the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze, affords Jerome the opportunityfor a light-hearted scrutiny of German social customs at a time of increasinggeneral interest in a country that he loved. This account of middle-aged Englishmen abroad is spiced with typical Jeromian humour. Edited by Geoffrey Harvey
- ISBN: 978-0-19-953797-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés