Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
Three men and a dog take a weekend boating trip up the Thames and encounter a variety of hazards ranging from tinned pineapple chunks to unreliable weather forecasts. Published in 1889 it was dismissed by critics at the time as a low brow piece of nonsense.
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