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The novel narrates the adventures of George, Harris, Jerome and the dog Montmorency, undertaking a trip on the Thames. The book is sprinkled with comic anecdotes, but also philosophical reflections on life, the illusions that we have willingly on the world and ourselves, and the need not to load too much luxury the boat of his life. Despite the reluctance of literary critics who accuse the author a style considered too popular, the book was a great success. To meet the demand, pirated copies will even sold in the United States. Although the work has aimed to discover how pleasant the history of the Thames, it is comical anecdotes that make it successful and make the always popular book today. PREFACE. _The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events that really happened. All that has been done is to colour them; and, for this, no extra charge has been made. George and Harris and Montmorency are not poetic ideals, but things of flesh and blood especially George, who weighs about twelve stone. Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable veracity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it. This, more than all its other charms, will, it is felt, make the volume precious in the eye of the earnest reader; and will lend additional weight to the lesson that the story teaches. LONDON, August, 1889. CHAPTER I. 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.

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Jerome Klapka Jerome says Jerome K. Jerome was born in Walsall (Staffordshire), England, May 2, 1859 and died in Northampton (Northamptonshire, England) June 14, 1927, is a British writer of humorous novels, best known for his book three men in a boat. Jerome Klapka Jerome was the fourth child of Jerome Clapp (who changed his name to Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher Protestant and Margaret Jones (subsequent change ""Clapp"" Jerome Clapp Jerome son in ""Klapka"" seems inspired by the surname of Klapka, a Hungarian general exiled in England). The family is initially easy, but the collapse of his father's business as a result of poor investment in a coal mine when he was only two years, the slides into poverty and debt. Hating school, he castigated repeatedly methods in his books, Jerome K. Jerome leaves fourteen because fatherless at the age of thirteen, then mother at the age of fifteen years it must provide itself with its needs and ambitions thwarted see a political or literary career. It then connects small jobs: it collects for four years coal fell beside the paths for the London and North Western Railway, he is a journalist, actor and teacher. However, finding the time to devote to writing. His first book, On and off stage, was published in 1885 and will be followed by many other books, plays and newspaper articles. In 1886 appeared The Lazy lazy, its first small success Thoughts. But it is especially Three men in a boat, which appeared in 1889, which became known to the general public. The success is such that estimated one million pirated copies circulated in the world at the time. This book remains the best known of Jerome K. Jerome. However, he never met with critical acclaim. Max Beerbohm say including that he is a ""tenth-rate writer who inundate us with its products tenth order,"" even though the Harrowsmith editor reeling under the effect of the request, stating ironically that the public must surely ""eat the books.""

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