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    The document summarizes Jerome K. Jerome's 1889 comedy novel Three Men in a Boat. It details three friends - George, Harris, and Jerome - who decide to take a boating holiday on the River Thames to cure themselves of various ailments through overwork. The majority of the story chronicles their journey along the river and the humorous mishaps and incidents they experience along the way.

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    Three Men In A Boat

    -Jerome K. Jerome

    • Name- Shailya Jha


    • Reg. No. – 2304609036
    • B.Tech (NA&OE) 1st Year
    ABOUT THE BOOK
    Name Of The Book- Three Men In A Boat
    Name of Author- Jerome K. Jerome
    Year of Publication- 1889
    Name of Publisher- J. W. Arrowsmith
    No. of Chapters - 20 Chapters
    Genre- Comedy
    Country- United Kingdom
    Language- English
    INTRODUCTION
    Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) is a humorous account by the renowned british
    author jerome k jerome, detailing a boating holiday spanning a couple of weeks. The story begins
    with an account of three friends- george, harris, and jerome (always called j) and j’s dog called
    Montmorency.

    The friends happen to be discussing the variety of ailments that plague them and unanimously
    come to the same conclusion – overwork was to blame.

    Naturally, the best antidote in that situation turns out to be a holiday, an impromptu one. Options
    for a holiday are floated around, and the decision of a boating trip on the thames is finalized.

    They set off the following weekend, reaching the starting point of their journey – george got there
    first while j and harris came later after a series of haphazard incidents also involving their
    bribing a train driver.
    The rest of the story describes their journey, peppered
    with a description of the landmarks they passed along
    the way, ruminating over the historical association of
    these places. Most of the time, it slips into a series of
    humorous anecdotes- on a wide variety of topics –
    weather, the (un)reliability of thermometers, towlines,
    boats, artificial trout, Irish stew – you name it.

    Their journey ends the same way it started- eventful.


    CONCLUSION
    The conclusion to this story is about as anticlimactic as the rest of the story. The men decide that their
    complete change will be a two-week river trip on the Thames. This is the point in the story when the
    plot switches from introduction to rising action. It’s also when the story gets hilarious. The three men
    (and the dog) are complete idiots. They can’t do anything right, and one of them is always falling into
    something. The rising actions of the story are essentially the men moving along the river and having
    mishap after mishap. Anything that could go wrong on the trip does go wrong, and it winds up being
    much more difficult than anticipated.

    And the story ends as the four leave behind the boat and everything on it, and head back to the city,
    where they spend a wonderful evening. Even Montmorency offers “a short bark of decided
    concurrence” with the outcome.

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