The book Three Men in the Boat, published in 1889, is a funny story of the English writer Jerom K. Jerom on a two -week cruise on the Thames from Kingston to Oxford and back. The author originally intended to write a serious travelogue with descriptions of local history along the route, but humorous elements eventually got to a point where a serious and somewhat sentimental passages only distract from a comic novel. One of the most praised things on three men in the boat is how timelessly it seems to modern readers - the jokes were praised as fresh and funny in every period.

The main character here is Jerome himself, along with two real life friends, George Wingrav and Carl Hentschel, with whom Jerome often made boat trips. Montmorence dog, is completely fictitious, but as Jerome admits, "has developed from the area of ​​inner consciousness that contains an element of the dog in all English."