Revision #4876

This is a humorous book of a two-week boating holiday from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston.The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes seem fresh and witty even today

— Alex@Mercer, 2017-12-06 14:56:18