Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- First Published: 1889
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Comic romance
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: J., Harris, George, Montmorency
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Dogs, Nineteenth century, Friendship, England or English people, Wit or humor, Rivers or waterways, London, Adventure, Boats or boating
- Locales: Thames River, England
The Story:
J., Harris, and George were feeling seedy. They sat around idly in J.’s room discussing their ailments. J., especially, was prone to ailments. Once he had gone through a medical book and discovered that he had all the symptoms of typhoid, cholera, and zymosis; in fact, he had all the ills described except housemaid’s knee.
He visited a doctor, intent on giving him practice in diagnosis. After the examination, the doctor gave him a prescription for a pound of beefsteak and a pint of bitter beer every six hours. The prescription must have been efficacious;...
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