Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

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Author: Jerome K. Jerome

This volume stands as the only available critical edition of two of the most popular classics in English literature.,,Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London’s playground in the late 1880s, where the fashionable steam-launches of river swells encounter the hired skiffs of….Read More

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