Three Men In A Boat (Book + Cd) La

Jerome, Jerome K.

ISBN 10 : 1906147116 ISBN 13 : 9781906147112

Editeur : CSA WORD, 2007

Synopsis

"Three Men In A Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome is one of the most amusing and durable books in the English language. Semi-autobiographical, it recounts the many adventures and mishaps of George (George Wingrave), Harris (Carl Hentschel), J. (the author and narrator) and his remarkable dog, Montmorency, during a boating trip on the Thames in the late nineteenth century. Jerome K. Jerome originally wrote the book as "A Guide to the Thames Valley" with lengthy historical sections lightened by comic interludes. However, his publisher greatly preferred the humour and asked for many of the historical sections to the guide to be cut out. So almost by accident the author wrote a hilarious book of adventures on the Thames.Vignettes included in this abridgement are the classic story of Harris lost in the Hampton Court maze, the hilarious description of three girls towing a boat, the three men's absurd attempts at putting the cover on their boat for the night and their futile efforts at opening a tin of pineapple. This book is a great rollicking barrage of fun. This new book and CD pack will appeal to listeners who are also keen readers, or vice versa.C SA WORD's award winning production of Jerome K. Jerome's book will be a real treat to anyone who has enjoyed reading the story in the past, and to anyone who enjoys a great laugh with a dollop of ridiculousness thrown in for good measure. Hugh Laurie is a perfect reader, with his mixture of foppish intonation and comedic stylings. His voice lends the reading a real personality, and a listener will truly believe that they are floating down the river, only being disturbed from this sanctuary every five or so seconds by the escapades of 3 hilarious men and their erratic, excitable and often irratable dog...

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers, the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional, but "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog." The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This is just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CSA WORD
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906147116
• ISBN 13: 9781906147112
• Reliure: CD
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible