Three Men in a Boat Annotated & Illustrated Edition

Three Men in a Boat is an immensely popular Victorian novel, published in 1889. It remains popular in some circles to this day. Jerome K. Jerome's early career as a writer was less than promising. He often had to resort to hack journalism to make money, and his first two books - a memoir and an essay collection - were modest successes, but not lucrative enough for him to support him as a full-time writer. This changed when he published Three Men in a Boat in 1889. The comic travelogue was first serialized in Home Chimes, and then published as a book in the same year. Jerome had taken a very similar trip along the Thames for his honeymoon in 1888, and his experiences provided him the subject material for the novel.