![]() ![]() ![]() 'So popular did it prove that Jerome reunited his heroes for a bicycle tour of Germany. The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created a new mass readership, and Jerome's book was especially popular among the 'clerking classes' who longed to be 'free from that fretful haste, that vehement striving, that is every day becoming more and more the bane of nineteenth-century life. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks.ĭenounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times. ![]()
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