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`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.
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(1889; 1900 /1982) R4 w/ Jeremy Nicholas.// I don't remember if I got this much joy then.
評分幽默,讀過的第一本全英文小說
評分由RAH的引薦纔得知這本書,在Have a space suit, will travel中讀到的。記得RAH曾經正的八經地給讀者列過一個書單,大都是科技科普類的經典,比如Science and Sanity這種俄羅斯人的東東。 RAH的確小資。
評分(1889; 1900 /1982) R4 w/ Jeremy Nicholas.// I don't remember if I got this much joy then.
評分由RAH的引薦纔得知這本書,在Have a space suit, will travel中讀到的。記得RAH曾經正的八經地給讀者列過一個書單,大都是科技科普類的經典,比如Science and Sanity這種俄羅斯人的東東。 RAH的確小資。
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載