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Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jerome K. Jerome
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Series edited by Dr. Keith Carabine
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Introduction by Prof. Cedric Watts
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Series | Wordsworth Classics |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:368 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781853260513
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Classifications | Dewey:FIC |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Imprint |
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Publication Date |
5 May 1992 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed, televised and imitated. The adventures and misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends and their pugnacious dog, Montmorency, provide rich humour, shrewd observations, lyrical reflections, and, predominantly, genially ironic perceptions of human fallibility. The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, reunites the three friends for their `Bummel' (`roaming or wandering') through Germany. The results vary from the seductively titillating to the outrageously farcical; and subsequent history has laden the narrative with ironies.
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