Three Men in a Boat is one of the most amusing and
durable books in the English language. Semi-autobiographical, it recounts the
adventures and mishaps of George, Harris, J. (the author) and his remarkable
dog Montmorency during a boat trip along the River Thames in England from
London to Oxford. Jerome K. Jerome originally intended the book to
be a guide to the Thames Valley but his publisher thought it so entertaining it
was published as a comic novel and has endured as a classic of the genre ever
since. Wonderfully light and surprisingly modern in tone, the sense of fun is
irrepressible, the enjoyment unstoppable. Real laugh-out-loud stuff.Hugh Laurie
is one of Britain's most successful actors. Having started out with Stephen Fry
in Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie, he has become a
superstar in America thanks to the success of the television series House,
where he plays the eponymous doctor protagonist.//ir
