Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)
- First published
- 1889
- Reading level
- Plain English
- Price
- Free
About the book
"Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)" by Jerome K. Jerome is a humorous novel published in 1889. Three friends and a dog embark on a two-week boating holiday up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford. What begins as a planned travel guide transforms into a comic masterpiece filled with misadventures, digressive anecdotes, and witty observations about everything from camping disasters to fishing mishaps. The humor remains fresh over a century later, capturing the timeless absurdities of friendship, leisure, and the great British pastime of muddling through.
- Young men
- Boats and boating
- Dogs
- Humorous stories, English
- Thames River (England)
- Male friendship
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #308. Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) on Wikipedia.
