Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
Buch
- Oxford University Press, 11/2008
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780199537976
- Bestellnummer: 2224655
- Umfang: 368 Seiten
- Auflage: New ed.
- Copyright-Jahr: 2008
- Gewicht: 260 g
- Maße: 196 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 13.11.2008
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Beschreibung
`Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat).Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s, where the fashionable steam-launches of river swells encounter the hired skiffs of city clerks. The medley of social vignettes, farcical incidents, descriptions of river fashions, and reflections on the Thames's history, is interspersed with humorous anecdotes told by a natural raconteur.
Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade, a break from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later; their cycling tour in the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze, affords Jerome the opportunity for a light-hearted scrutiny of German social customs at a time of increasing general interest in a country that he loved. This account of middle-aged Englishmen abroad is spiced with typical Jeromian humour.
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Klappentext
This is the only critical edition available of two of the most popular modern classics in English literature. Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford, and provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s. Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade some ten years later, when the trio cycle through the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicyclingcraze.Biografie
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927), geb. in der mittelenglischen Grafschaft Staffordshire, arbeitete zunächst bei der Eisenbahn, dann als Reporter und Schauspieler. Er war Mitherausgeber des 'Idler' und verfasste populäre humoristische Erzählungen.Mehr von Jerome K. Jerome
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