{"product_id":"three-men-in-a-boat-jerome-k-jerome","title":"Three Men in a Boat — Jerome K. Jerome","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree friends and a troublesome dog take to the Thames for a restful holiday. Packing, camping, cooking and navigation soon turn into a wonderfully comic catalogue of mishaps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerome K. Jerome’s complete classic travel comedy in nineteen chapters, with the preface, footnotes and original illustrations. The original English text is retained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReflowable EPUB with selectable, searchable text, adjustable type and linked contents. New AI-assisted cover by Nile Book Store. Source and edition credits included; the original text is public domain in the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca id=\"nile-free-epub-download\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/three-men-in-a-boat-en-complete.epub?v=1792021818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" download\u003eDownload the complete English EPUB — free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A9-%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%83-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A8-%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85-%D9%83-%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85\"\u003eالطبعة العربية\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003csection id=\"nile-opening-preview\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"border:1px solid #dfdacb;border-radius:12px;padding:20px;margin:20px 0;background:#fffdfa\"\u003e\u003ch2\u003eIllustrated preview — opening of the book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eThere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eWe 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. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eIt is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eI remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch—hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into—some fearful, devastating scourge, I know—and, before I had glanced half down the list of “premonitory symptoms,” it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure style=\"margin:1em 0;text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/three-men-opening-illustration-1.jpg?v=1792021796\" alt=\"Original illustration from the novel\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eI sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever—read the symptoms—discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it—wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus’s Dance—found, as I expected, that I had that too,—began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically—read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright’s disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eI felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn’t I got housemaid’s knee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid’s knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eI sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class! Students would have no need to “walk the hospitals,” if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eThen I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I have since been induced to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating, but I cannot account for it. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head, and I went a bit round each side, and a little way up the back. But I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as far as ever it would go, and I shut one eye, and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip, and the only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eI had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. 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