Classic comic fiction

Three Men in a Boat

by Jerome K. Jerome

Convinced they suffer from overwork and assorted illnesses, J., George, and Harris plan a restorative boating holiday on the Thames with the dog Montmorency. Packing, camping, cooking, navigation, and even opening a tin become occasions for mishap, argument, and gloriously inflated self-assessment. Comic digressions about history and earlier disasters interrupt the river journey as freely as weather and impractical equipment. Light and enduringly funny, this Victorian classic suits readers who enjoy travel misadventures, dry narration, hapless friends, and humor drawn from the gap between how capable people imagine themselves and how they actually behave.