ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1959
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

65529) THREE MEN IN A BOAT , Jerome K. Jerome , Foreign Languages Publishing House Moscow 1959 , Tri čoveka u čamcu a o psu i d an egovorimo, Derom K. Džerom, enhleski jezik , sovjetsko izdanje
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 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.
tvrd povez, format 13,5 x 20,5 cm , ilustrovano, 227 strana