| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Jerome K, Jerome; THREE MEN IN A BOAT; THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL; Explanatory Notes |
| Summary |
This is the only critical edition available of two of the most popular modern classics in English literature. Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford, and provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s. Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade some ten years later, when the trio cycle through the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze. - ;̀€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 an |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page xxviii) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Male friendship -- Fiction.
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Boats and boating -- Fiction
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Humorous stories, English.
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FICTION -- General.
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Boats and boating
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Humorous stories, English
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Male friendship
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| SUBJECT |
Thames River (England) -- Fiction
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Black Forest (Germany) -- Fiction
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| Subject |
England -- Thames River
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Germany -- Black Forest
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harvey, Geoffrey, 1943-
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Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927.
Three men on the bummel.
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| ISBN |
9780191610790 |
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0191610798 |
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1280595183 |
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9781280595189 |
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9786613625014 |
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6613625019 |
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0191611328 |
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9780191611322 |
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