Three Men in a Boat: Penguin Classics Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Presented by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Blake Harrison, star from the Inbetweeners, also known for his roles on screen in an exceedingly English Scandal and Todd Margaret, as well as on London’s West Result in Waitress. This definitive recording includes an Intro by David Carroll.

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt in the Thames would match these to a ‘T’. But when they tripped, they can hardly predict the problems that lie forward with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks – not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.’s little fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Males in a Boat was an instantaneous success when it made an appearance in 1889, and, using its harmless escapism, authorial discursions and amazing evocation of the late-Victorian ‘clerking classes’, it hilariously captured the nature of its age group.