WACT Book Club | April 2027

Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome (237 pages)

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome is a comic travel classic first published in 1889. Framed as the story of three friends and a dog taking a boating holiday on the Thames, the book turns an ordinary river trip into a sequence of comic disasters, digressions, anxieties, and observations about friendship. Its humor remains surprisingly alive because the book understands a permanent human truth: people are ridiculous when they travel, and even more ridiculous when they try to relax.

A comic river journey of friendship, mishaps, and Victorian absurdity that still feels fresh.

Author’s Biography

Jerome K. Jerome was an English writer and humorist best remembered for Three Men in a Boat. His comic voice, digressive structure, and eye for ordinary absurdity helped make the novel one of the enduring classics of English humorous prose.

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