Published in the year 1889, Three Men in a Boat, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston to Oxford and back to Kingston. It is based on three best friends and a faithful dog who take this adventurous boat trip. The narrator in the novel J is the author himself and the two friends are his real friends George and Karl. The book was meant to be a travel guide depicting local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over and it turned out to be an undated comic novel