When Books Were Fun Episode 006: The English Riverside

from When Books Were Fun · host Al Anderson and Jeff Scott

In which we discuss Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome (1889) and The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908) and contrast a (somewhat) factual account of three men (and a dog) boating on the Thames with a child’s fantasy of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Mr. Toad, and their adventures along a river and the English [email protected] Check out Al’s stories at sonrisestories.com. Jeff’s web site is currently under (re)construction.

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