2009, ISBN: 5f1ad30aa3fb58ca83055d6a08676bd3

What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life o… mais…

What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans, kettles and tins of pineapple. Jerome K. Jerome s delightful novel has kept readers smiling for years and his prose has found a perfect partner in Vic Reeves s glorious and witty illustrations. ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTY ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY COMEDIAN AND ARTIST VIC REEVES EXCLUSIVE TO VINTAGE CLASSICS Author Biography: Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall on 2 May 1859 and brought up in East London. After his father died, Jerome left school at fourteen and worked as a railway clerk, actor, journalist and teacher. In 1885 he published On the Stage - and Off which was followed in 1886 by Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. In 1888 Jerome married Georgina Stanley and a year later he published his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat. The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, appeared in 1900. Jerome also wrote several other novels, plays, stories and autobiographical writings, edited The Idler and Today magazines and, during the First World War, worked for the French ambulance service. Jerome K. Jerome died on 14 June 1927., Random House UK, 2009-05-04, 0, SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1970 (1960)* Publisher: Penguin* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers illustrated with film tie-in photograph. Considerable rubs & wear to edges & creases to corners. Some ageing & with light creases to spine and hinge. Considerable dish to spine. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean & tight. No annotations. inscriptions or marks to text. Slight colouration to page edges, margins & end papers. GD* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 541 pp. text. iii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- This magnificent novel, which Lawrence himself considered his best, is the story of the lives and emotional conflicts of two sisters, Gudrun and Ursula, who also appeared in The Rainbow. They live in a Midlands colliery town and the story covers their relationships and convictions about love and modern society. Made into a seminal film by United Artists directed by Ken Russell.* This is a GD copy with considerable shelf wear and some tanning reducing it to ACC*, Penguin, 1970-01-01, 0<