Three Men in a Boat/Three Men on the Bummel(Penguin Classics)|报价￥108.80|图书,进口原版,Others 其他,Jerome K. Jerome

品牌：Jerome K. Jerome

基本信息

·出版社：Penguin Classics

·页码：400 页码

·出版日：2000年

·ISBN：0140437509

·条码：9780140437508

·装帧：平装

·英语：英语

·丛书名：Penguin Classics

内容简介

`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 and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat). 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 city clerks. The medley of social vignettes, farcical incidents, descriptions of river fashions, and reflections on the Thames's history, is interspersed with humorous anecdotes told by a natural raconteur. Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade, a break from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later; their cycling tour in the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze, affords Jerome the opportunity for a light-hearted scrutiny of German social customs at a time of increasing general interest in a country that he loved. This account of middle-aged Englishmen abroad is spiced with typical Jeromian humour.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.

作者简介

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) was an actor, teacher, and journalist before turning to writing books. After the success ofThree Men in a Boat, Jerome and some friends foundedThe Idler, a magazine that ran pieces by Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain. Jerome published an autobiography in 1926.

Jeremy Lewis worked as the Deputy Editor ofLondon Magazineuntil 1994 and is now the Commissioning Editor for theOldie.

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