Трое в лодке, не считая собаки / Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog)

Джером Клапка Джером

Марина Анатольевна Поповец

Бестселлер на все времена

Чтение оригинальных произведений – простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном языке. Серия «Бестселлер на все времена» – это возможность улучшить свой английский, читая лучшие произведения англоязычных авторов, любимые миллионами читателей. Для лучшего понимания текста в книгу включены краткий словарь и комментарии, поясняющие языковые и лингвострановедческие вопросы, исторические и культурные реалии описываемой эпохи.

Хроника незабываемого путешествия по Темзе – самое знаменитое произведение Джерома К. Джерома. Невероятно смешные и узнаваемые жизненные зарисовки, мягкая ирония автора и его блистательные каламбуры сделали роман любимой книгой миллионов читателей и прекрасным пособием по изучению английского языка.

Книга предназначена для тех, кто изучает английский язык на продолжающем или продвинутом уровне и стремится к его совершенствованию.

Джером К. Джером / Jerome K. Jerome

Трое в лодке, не считая собаки / Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog)

© ООО «�здательство «Эксмо», 2015

Preface

The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events that really happened. All that has been done is to colour the mand, for this, no extra charge has been made. George and Harris and Montmorency are not poetic ideals, but things of flesh and blood – especially George, who weighs about twelve stone[1 - stone – примерно 6,35 кг]. Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature other books may rival it in originality and size but, for hopeless and incurable veracity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it. This, more than all its other charms, will, it is felt, make the volume precious in the eye of the earnest reader and will lend additional weight to the lesson that the story teaches.

В В В В London, August, 1889

Chapter I

Three invalids. – Sufferings of George and Harris. – A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies. – Useful prescriptions. – Cure for liver complaint in children. – We agree that we are overworked, and need rest. – A week on the rolling deep? – George suggests the river. – Montmorency lodges an objection. – Original motion carried by majority of three to one.

There were four of us – George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were – bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.

We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that HE had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what HE was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order.