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 intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over, to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages now seem like an unnecessary distraction to the essentially 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.

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 intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over, to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages now seem like an unnecessary distraction to the essentially 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.

Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist. His novel Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned. There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over and the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. Jerome's characters proved to be so popular that he brought them back for an equally picaresque bicycle tour of Germany, an adventure recorded in Three Men on the Bummel.

Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. His novel Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned. There are four of them — George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, Montmorency — all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over and the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. Jerome's characters proved to be so popular that he brought them back for an equally picaresque bicycle tour of Germany, an adventure recorded in Three Men on the Bummel.

Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. His novel Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned. There are four of them — George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, Montmorency — all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over and the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. Jerome's characters proved to be so popular that he brought them back for an equally picaresque bicycle tour of Germany, an adventure recorded in Three Men on the Bummel.

Великолепный роман, полный юмора и смешных ситуаций, повествующий о путешествии трех закадычных друзей, британских "джентльменов" и их собаки, фокстерьера Монморенси, по реке Темзе. Книга рассчитана на студентов начальных курсов вузов и на массового читателя.

Джером Клапка Джером (1859-1927) английский писатель-юморист, драматург. Юношей автор пробовал себя в актёрской профессии, писал эссе, работал журналистом, учителем, упаковщиком. Успех пришёл к нему в 1889 году, когда на свет появилась юмористическая повесть Трое в лодке, не считая собаки о путешествии трёх английских джентльменов. Друзья пустились в плавание по Темзе, чтобы отдохнуть от повседневной городской суеты. В пути с ними приключилось множество забавных ситуаций, из которых они вышли с истинно английской невозмутимостью.

Three Men in a Boat, first published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames, taken by three English gentlemen. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements gradually took over and turned it into a comic novel. Surprisingly enough the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.

Skiff off, Nigel! Incompetence, embarrassment, and general disaster no it s not politics, it s a trip down the Thames! Three hapless fellows and a world weary dog decide they need a holiday from their exhausting hypochondria. Hilarious mayhem ensues.

Трое в лодке, не считая собаки - это юмористическая повесть Джерома К. Джерома, не теряющая своей популярности с XIX века. Трое друзей Джей, Джордж и Харрис, решив поправить свое здоровье, отправляются в путешествие вверх по Темзе от Кингстона до Оксфорда. С собой они берут пса по кличке Монморанси. В пути друзья попадают в разные курьезные ситуации, из которых выходят с присущим английским джентльменам достоинством. Изначально эта книга задумывалась как путеводитель, поэтому она содержит описание достопримечательностей и населенных пунктов, а также занимательные факты об истории и географии этих мест. Наслаждайтесь любимым произведением на языке оригинала!

Трое в лодке, не считая собаки - это юмористическая повесть Джерома К. Джерома, не теряющая своей популярности с XIX века. Трое друзей Джей, Джордж и Харрис, решив поправить свое здоровье, отправляются в путешествие вверх по Темзе от Кингстона до Оксфорда. С собой они берут пса по кличке Монморанси. В пути друзья попадают в разные курьезные ситуации, из которых выходят с присущим английским джентльменам достоинством. Изначально эта книга задумывалась как путеводитель, поэтому она содержит описание достопримечательностей и населенных пунктов, а также занимательные факты об истории и географии этих мест. Наслаждайтесь любимым произведением на языке оригинала!

Великолепный роман, полный юмора и смешных ситуаций, повествующий о путешествии трех закадычных друзей, британских "джентльменов" и их собаки, фокстерьера Монморенси, по реке Темзе. Книга рассчитана на студентов начальных курсов вузов и на массового читателя.

'Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.' Suffering from every malady in the book except housemaid's knee, three men and a dog decide to head for a restful vacation on the Thames. Anticipating peace and leisure, they encounter, in fact, the joys of roughing it, of getting their boat stuck in locks, of being towed by amateurs, of having to eat their own cooking and, of course, of coping with the glorious English weather.

Великолепный роман, полный юмора и смешных ситуаций, повествующий о путешествии трех закадычных друзей, британских "джентльменов" и их собаки, фокстерьера Монморенси, по реке Темзе. Книга рассчитана на студентов начальных курсов вузов и на массового читателя.

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin Classics. 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, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian 'clerking classes', it hilariously captured the spirit of its age. In his introduction, Jeremy Lewis examines Jerome K. Jerome's life and times, and the changing world of Victorian England he depicts - from the rise of a new mass-culture of tabloids and bestselling novels to crazes for daytripping and bicycling. Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) was born in Walstall, Staffordshire, and educated at Marylebone Grammar School. He left school at fourteen to become a railway clerk, the first in a long line of jobs that included actor, teacher and journalist. His first book, On Stage and Off, a collection of humorous pieces about the theatre, was published in 1885, and was followed the year after with the more commercially-successful The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; but it was with Three Men in a Boat (1889) that Jerome achieved lasting fame. He later went on to become one of the founders of the humorous magazine, The Idler, and continued to write articles and plays.

В книгу включены избранные главы из повести известного английского писателя-юмориста Джерома Клапки Джерома "Трое в лодке, не считая собаки". Неадаптированный текст снабжен комментариями и кратким словарем. Словарь содержит толкования некоторых слов, которые обычно не входят в активный словарный запас учащихся. Комментарии облегчают понимание лексико-грамматических трудностей, а также поясняют реалии исторического, культурно-бытового и отчасти географического характера. Вопросы направлены на проверку понимания прочитанного и развитие навыков устной речи. Книга предназначена для учащихся 9-11 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка и для студентов неязыковых вузов. Комментарии и словарь Ю.О. Петровой.