There were four of us—George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were—bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course. We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all. It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.

Jerome, Harris e George sono tre scapoli un po' nevrotici e impiegati nella city londinese. Nel tentativo di spezzare la monotonia del tran tran quotidiano, i tre amici decidono di intraprendere in un lungo e avventuroso viaggio in barca risalendo la corrente del Tamigi. Ad accompagnarli nelle loro esilaranti disavventure sarà il cane Montmorency, il vero eroe di questa gita passata agli annali della letterature mondiale.Questo grande classico rivive in una pregiata edizione ebook contenente tutte le illustrazioni originali.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames. First published in 1889, the book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide with accounts of local history along the route but eventually ended up being one of the most humorous novels ever written.Join George, Harris, Jerome - all three based on real characters - and the heroic dog Montmorency in this hilarious account of their misadventures.This ebook edition contains all of the original illustrations.

Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer 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 and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom J. 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.

SOLIDARIETA" DIGITALE : tutto il nostro catalogo in promozione! Tre uomini in barca uno dei libri più amati della letteratura per ragazzi. È la storia di tre amici, J., George e Harris, che, risalendo la corrente del Tamigi con una fragile imbarcazione, viaggiano per diversi giorni attraverso la campagna inglese. Accompagnati dal fedele cane Montmorency, che per i suoi atteggiamenti quasi umani riveste davvero il ruolo di quarto protagonista del romanzo, vivono una straordinaria serie di avventure esilaranti, che strappano continue risate al lettore per la loro incredibile comicità. Quando si vive in una città caotica, fredda e nebbiosa come Londra, infatti, non c’è niente di più bello e corroborante di una gita in campagna, a contatto con la natura, per respirare l’aria pura e fare un po’ di esercizio fisico, con cene intorno al fuoco e notti trascorse a riposare sotto una tenda. A meno che non si verifichino gli imprevisti più inattesi. E questo è proprio il caso dei tre uomini in barca...

"Tre uomini in barca" doveva essere una guida turistica e doveva intitolarsi "La storia del Tamigi", ma il carattere umoristico e gioviale dell"opera, insieme alla capacità letteraria dell"autore, ne fecero subito un romanzo di successo che vendette, ai tempi, in Gran Bretagna, un milione e mezzo di copie. L"autore Jerome Klapka Jerome (Walsall, 2 maggio 1859 – Northampton, 14 giugno 1927) è stato uno scrittore, giornalista e umorista britannico. Traduzione a cura di Silvio Spaventa Filippi (Avigliano, 31 agosto 1871 – Milano, 21 ottobre 1931), giornalista, traduttore e romanziere italiano.