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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild; the Victorian English gentleman world includes social drinking
Emotional Intensity
None
No psychological concerns; pure comic delight
What this book is about
Jerome K. Jerome's 1889 comic masterpiece follows the narrator J., Harris, George, and the dog Montmorency on a boating holiday up the Thames — in which everything that can go wrong does, the provisions are never right, the weather is never predictable, and the whole enterprise is continuously derailed by its participants' incompetence and good humor. One of the funniest books in English literature.
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