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Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
Three friends and a dog set off along the Thames for a restful holiday. Packing, cooking and steering soon become adventures of their own, with frequent detours into stories that have very little to do with rowing.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Humor / Travel
- Length
- 20 chapters · About 6 hours
- First published
- 1889
- Availability
- Free
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A cheerful choice for a few pages at a time. Dry humour, comic mishaps and conversational digressions matter more here than a tightly plotted journey.
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THE OPENING PAGES
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Three invalids.—Sufferings of George and Harris.—A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies.—Useful prescriptions.—Cure for liver complaint in children.—We agree that we are overworked, and need rest.—A week on the rolling deep?—George suggests the River.—Montmorency lodges an objection.—Original motion carried by majority of three to one.
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…Start reading this book ↗