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Who would be a chaperone?He would fling himself on his knees before her, never noticing the dogI left them at itHe went with her and made himself ridiculous at the dressmakersWhy should we seek to explain away all the beautiful things of life?Are we so sure that art does elevate?The artist knew precisely the sort of girl that ought to be thereA mans work tis till set of sun, but a womans work is never done!Does the lady out shopping ever fall in love with the waiter at the bun-shop?Woman has been appointed by Nature the trustee of the childrenComparing himself the while with Moliere reading to his cookThe singer may be a heavy, fleshy man with a taste for beerIt is the fool who imagines her inhumanIt seized a natural human passion and turned it to good usesShe suggested that poets and novelists should take service for a year in any large drapery or millinery establishmentWho is it succeeds in escaping the law of the hive?

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips.

An account of a journey up the Thames by rowing boat.

Seguendo la corrente del fiume, i tre amici Jerome, Harris e George, assieme al fido Montmorency, viaggiano per giorni sulla loro fragile imbarcazione, scorrendo lungo le campagne inglesi, e vivono sempre nuove e inattese avventure che strappano risate di continuo. Una serie di gag comiche sulle gioie e sui dolori della vita in barca, nel miglior stile dello humor inglese, condite di descrizioni realistiche delle regioni attraversate dalla simpatica brigata e brevi notazioni di filosofia per non addetti ai lavori.

«Éramos cuatro: George, William Samuel Harris, yo y Montmorency. Estábamos sentados en mi habitación, fumando y charlando sobre lo mal que nos encontrábamos; mal desde el punto de vista médico, natur

Contains: / Malvina of Brittany / The Street of the Blank Wall / His Evening Out / The Lesson / Sylvia of the Letters / The Fawn Gloves

Una taza de porcelana china, un sueño o la escritura de una carta son los asuntos aparentemente ínfimos que dan pie a estos ensayos escritos por el inglés Charles Lamb a comienzos del siglo XIX. Bajo la voz alegre y honesta que habla de sucesos cotidianos se descubre la sutileza, el humor y la profunda comprension del hombre que marcan cada una de las observaciones y digresiones. Esta voz tiene la rara cualidad de penetrar en lo esencial a partir de un estilo descuidado, y de proyectarse fuera del tiempo el nuestro o el de sus ancestros desde las cosas mas sencillas de cada dia. Como en todo ensayo clasico, se trata de la imaginacion y reflexion de un escritor que aprehende con asombro un mundo donde la tradicion literaria y la historia personal se iluminan mutuamente. Es un curso de pensamiento que se rie de si mismo para entregar placer y se hace cargo de su debilidad para enseñar lo que lo enaltece: la amistad,la libertad, la sabiduria que no se complace en si misma y el espiritu feliz de la niñez.

"One of the comic gems of the English language." Robert McCrum"[Jerome saw] that one of the funniest things a human being has is his conscience." V. S. PritchettMartyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a T. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.s small fox-terrier Montmorency.Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian clerking classes, it hilariously captured the spirit of its age.