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

The adventures of the unlucky, good-natured English traveling across the Thames, about which Jerome wrote in his famous novel Three in a Boat, Not Counting a Dog, translated into almost all the languages ​​of the world and repeatedly filmed, became well known even in the most remote corners of the planet.
It was originally planned that the book would be a guide covering local history as the route followed. At first, Jerome was going to name the book "The Story of the Thames." “I was not even going to write a ridiculous book at first,” he admitted in his memoirs. The book was supposed to focus on the Thames and its "scenery", landscape and historical, and only with small funny stories "for relaxation". “But for some reason it didn’t go that way. It turned out that it all became “ridiculous for discharge”. With sullen determination, I continued ... I wrote with a dozen historical pieces and squeezed them one per chapter. ” The first publisher, F.W. Robinson, immediately threw out almost all of these pieces and made Jerome come up with a different headline. “I wrote half when the name“ Three in a boat ”came to my mind. Nothing was better. "