Three Men on a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog)

First published in 1900, the erratic progress of J. Harris, George and Montmorency the dog won immediate approval of Londoners, while readers all over the world saw Three Men in a Boat as a key to the British character. The project, which began as an attempt to promote pleasure boating, became one of the greatest comedy turns of Victorian literature ? a timeless classic to be read again and again.