Three men in a boat

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 o... » 

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 towropes unreliable weatherforecasts and tins of pineapple chunks not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.s small foxterrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889 and with its benign escapism authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the lateVictorian clerking classes it hilariously captured the spirit of its age. «