When J.
the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks.
Denounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times.
The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created a new mass readership, and Jerome's book wa.