 First edition | |
| Author | Jerome K. Jerome |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Comedy novel |
| Publisher | J. W. Arrowsmith |
Publication date | 1900 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| OCLC | 9315381 |
| Preceded by | Three Men in a Boat |
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 Germany. 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 school book in Germany."[1] Jeremy Nicholas of the Jerome K. Jerome Society regards it as a "comic masterpiece" containing "set pieces" as funny or funnier than those in its predecessor, but, taken as a whole, not as satisfying due to the lack of as strong a unifying thread.[2]