Three Men in a Boat, adapted to about A2
- Approximate level
- A2
- Language
- English
The same story in simpler words and shorter sentences. Lingo7 makes it with AI from this public domain text, page by page as you read, so details can differ from the original.
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About the original book
Jerome K. Jerome’s 1889 comic novel follows three friends and a dog on a boating holiday along the River Thames. The opening uses mock-medical language and playful exaggeration as the men discuss their imagined illnesses and decide they need a rest. You will meet late Victorian vocabulary, including older medical terms and formal expressions. The prose is often built from long, carefully linked sentences, but lively dialogue and clear comic scenes give you shorter stretches to read as well. Themes include friendship, travel, leisure, and self-deception.
Text from Project Gutenberg, public domain.