{"product_id":"2940148293712","title":"Three Men in a Boat","description":"Three Men in a Boat  is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional[1] but, \"as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog. The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.","brand":"Mike Morley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111222722800,"sku":"2940148293712","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148293712_p0.jpg?v=1763700632","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148293712","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}