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Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness - J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a T. But when they set off - they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes - unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.s small fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889 - and proved so popular that Jerome reunited his now older - but not necessarily wiser - heroes in Three Men on the Bummel - for a picaresque bicycle tour of Germany. With their benign escapism - authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian clerking classes - both novels hilariously capture the spirit of their age....