Three Men in a Boat

Three friends, one perpetually anxious dog named Montmorency, and a rowing trip up the Thames that was supposed to be relaxing. Every stop turns into a small disaster — tangled tents, disastrous cooking, wildly unreliable weather forecasts — and every disaster is recounted with a straight face that makes it funnier than any joke could. Jerome K. Jerome's comic masterpiece hasn't aged a day: it's ...