Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel

When J. the narrator, along with George, Harris, and Montmorency the dog, embark on their comedic misadventures, they are unprepared for the chaos involving tow-ropes, erratic weather forecasts, imaginary ailments, butter pats, and tins of pineapple chunks. Although denounced as vulgar by the literary elite, the book captured the zeitgeist of its era. The rise in education and the growing number of office workers fostered a new mass readership, particularly among the 'clerking classes' yearning to escape the relentless pace and striving that plagued nineteenth-century life. Its immense popularity led Jerome to reunite his characters for a bicycle tour of Germany. In this sequel, despite some astute and prophetic observations about the country, the journey is limited only by the need to return within a set timeframe. For over seventy years, Penguin has been a leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, offering more than 1,700 titles that form a global bookshelf of exceptional works across genres and disciplines. Readers rely on the series for authoritative texts, enhanced by introductions and notes from distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as modern translations by award-winning translators.