Les trois comperes de Trois hommes dans un bateau partent faire une balade en Allemagne, a pied, en velo ou en attelage. Au cours de cette longue promenade, il leur arrive de multiples aventures. Celles-ci et les souvenirs plus anciens qu'elles suscitent, forment l'essentiel du livre, de ce fait impossible a resumer.

Tre uomini in barca (per tacere del cane) o, in alcune traduzioni, Tre uomini in barca (per non parlare del cane) e un romanzo nato quasi per un malinteso, visto che l'autore, originariamente, aveva redatto un'opera ricca di notizie storico-letterarie utili per una guida turistica e che doveva intitolarsi La storia del Tamigi.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers, the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author's second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome's better works, and in spite of using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter. A second "Idle Thoughts" book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author's second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome's better works, and in spite of using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter. A second "Idle Thoughts" book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898.

Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions who figured in Three Men in a Boat, this time on a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest. D. C. Browning's introduction to the 1957 Everyman's edition says "Like most sequels, it has been compared unfavourably with its parent story, but it was only a little less celebrated than Three Men in a Boat and was for long used as a...

Quattro amici, dopo aver cenato insieme, decidono di scrivere un romanzo. Ritroviamo l'umorismo di J. K. Jerome che attraverso questo espediente metaletterario riesce a raccontare nuove vicende e avventure curiose.

El Buscon es un relato de la peripecia vital del picaro don Pablos de Segovia, desde su infancia a la proyectada fuga a Indias con que termina la obra. Entre estos dos polos se situa una serie de aventuras, casi siempre catastroficas para el personaje, que fracasa en su busqueda de estabilidad economica y social, y cuyos fingimientos de nobleza son desenmascarados sin cesar.

Francisco Gomez de Quevedo Villegas y Santibanez Cevallos (Madrid, 14 de septiembre de 15801 -Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real, 8 de septiembre de 1645), conocido como Francisco de Quevedo, fue un escritor espanol del Siglo de Oro. Se trata de uno de los autores mas destacados de la historia de la literatura espanola y es especialmente conocido por su obra poetica, aunque tambien escribio obras narrativas y obras dramaticas.

The Old Man In the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detectives, popping up with so many others in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The Old Man relies mostly upon sensationalistic "penny dreadful" newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit. He narrates all this information, while tying complicated knots in a piece of string, to a female Journalist who frequents the same tea-shop (the ABC Teashop on the corner of Norfolk Street and the Strand). They enjoy an antagonistic relationship, as the Journalist attempts to cut the Old Man's ego down to...