Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat was meant to be a serious travel guide to the Thames, between Kingston and Oxford. Instead, it is one of the wittiest, funniest fictional jaunts down a river ever written. The three men are based on author Jerome and two of his friends. The dog "e;developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog."e;