Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Three Men in a Boat was meant to be a serious travel guide to the Thames, between Kingston and Oxford.

Instead, it is one of the wittiest, funniest fictional jaunts down a river ever written.

The three men are based on author Jerome and two of his friends.

The dog "e;developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog."e;