A humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men are based on Jerome himself and two real-life friends, George Wingrave and Carl Hentschel , with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional 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. - Summary by Wikipedia
Jerome K. Jerome
**Jerome K. Jerome** (1859–1927) est un écrivain et humoriste britannique, célèbre pour son chef-d’œuvre *Trois hommes dans un bateau* (1889). Issu d’un milieu modeste, il quitte l’école à quatorze ans pour travailler, avant de se consacrer à l’écriture et de devenir journaliste, acteur et instituteur. Son style, mêlant autodérision, satire sociale et observations fines sur la nature humaine, a marqué la littérature comique anglaise. *Trois Hommes en Balade* confirme son talent pour transformer les travers du quotidien en aventures hilarantes.
