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Though the book did serve as a useful travel guide-and, in fact, still does, as many of the inns and pubs named in the work are still open-the timeless humour of Jerome’s writing and the extreme popularity of the book in Great Britain transformed it into an important piece of popular culture as well. Jerome K Jerome later wrote a hit West End play, The Passing of the Third. The men, all hypochondriacs, are chatting about their latest illnesses, each man certain that he is in danger of death or serious disease. Three Men in a Boat is one of those rare classics that seems to come, as it were, out of nowhere, and to defy the odds. Jerome originally intended the book to be a travel guide for tourists participating in the then-popular activity of leisure boating. Chapter 1 The narrator, J., is smoking in his room with his friends,Georgeand William SamuelHarris, and his dogMontmorency. Three Men in a Boat is generally accepted as a work of humour due to the amusing anecdotes the three men relate during their trip up the Thames. and his two friends, George and Harris, decide to take a short holiday to escape the stress of their everyday lives, and so the three companions-along with a fox terrier named Montmorency-embark on a leisure tour up the Thames River, travelling from Kingston to Oxford, and musing about their lives and their trip.

Three men in the boat