Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (Everyman's Library)
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Revival Books Ltd [50604927], Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom.
A few small marks to the page edges. Darkened tan to the page edges. Ex Library Book with usual stamps and stickers. Light foxing to the page edges. (Hence Acceptable) Good reading copy. Acceptable: a readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Revival Books UK.
Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. 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. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers — the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog." The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. As with Three Men in a Boat, Three Men on the Bummel seems thoroughly modern in tone and style of humor. Jerome K. Jerome is particularly fond of comical exaggeration of the sort that would seem totally natural on a television sitcom today. After a mistake involving somebody else's bicycle, and a run-in with the authorities, he summarizes "My going scot free is regarded in police circles there to this day as a grave miscarriage of justice." Portions read much like Douglas Adams ("I wish no one to read this book under a misapprehension. There will be no useful information in this book.") and others like John Cleese in Fawlty Towers (a discussion of an English shopkeeper frustrated when the protagonists, as a prank, pretend not to be able to speak English). The material near the start of the book about the friends and their wives is all quite funny, and thoroughly modern in the way the women effortlessly outsmart the men. The discussions of stereotypical German behavior are remarkable mostly for how little such stereotypes have changed. Germans were, 120 years ago and today, thought to be officious and compulsive in following rules. Fans of old bicycle books will find much here to like, with description of the hazards of amateur bike-tuning, and lies in bike advertisements, and the observation that uphills always seem to last longer than downhills. Hardcover, Label: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, J M Dent & Sons Ltd, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1977-06, Studio: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, Verkaufsrang: 9871675.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Grossbritannien und Nordirland, Versandkosten nach: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books Ltd.
J M Dent & Sons Ltd. Used - Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Book has some water damage, but book is still completely readable. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase benefits world literacy!

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books Ltd [53572034], Dunfermline, United Kingdom.
Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Book has some water damage, but book is still completely readable.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books UK, FIFE, Dunfermline, [RE:4].
Hard cover.