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This Penguin Classic is conducted by Blake Harrison, star of The Inbetweeners, also known for his roles on screen in an exceedingly English Scandal and Todd Margaret, aswell as on London’s West End in Waitress. This definitive recording includes an Intro by David Carroll.

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his close friends George and Harris decide a jaunt up the Thames would suit these to a ‘T’. But when they tripped, they can barely predict the difficulties that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks – not forgetting the devastation remaining in the wake of J.’s little fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Motorboat was an instantaneous success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and great evocation of the late-Victorian ‘clerking classes’, it hilariously captured the spirit of its age group.

(c) 1889, Jerome K. Jerome (P) 2019 Penguin Audio