Three in the boat, not counting the dog

Jerome Pack Jerome (1859-1927)-English writer-humor, playwright. The future writer dreamed of becoming a politician or writer, but early Osithev, was forced to leave his studies and look for work. He hired into a railway company and collected coal along the railway tracks, tried to work as an artist, teacher, packer, reporter, wrote an essay, but did not receive offers to publish them. Only in 1885 with the publication of the novel “On the stage and behind the stage”, in which he talked about his own experience, success came to him.

In 1889, the main work of the writer was published - “Three in the boat , not counting the dog. " The prototypes of the main characters were the author’s friends - George Wings and Karl Henshel. Three friends, George, Harris and Jay, decide to take an amusement boat walk up the Thames. Endless fees begin. And one of Saturdays, friends, taking with them a dog Jay, Foxsterier Montmoraxi, leave the house to get to the river...

The author continues to describe the comic situations in which the heroes fall, and everything that happens is directly related to The history of the Thames and its environs.

The book was stunning success and formed the basis of many films and plays.