Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Three Men on the Bummel
    Three Men on the Bummel
    Three Men on the Bummel
    Audiobook5 hours

    Three Men on the Bummel

    Written by Jerome K Jerome

    Narrated by John Stanbridge

    4/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    Three Men on the Bummel (1900) is a comical travelogue by Jerome K. Jerome. The three companions are on a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest. What does Bummel mean? D. C. Browning writes "The title must be puzzling to many readers, for 'bummel' will not be found in English dictionaries." You can learn it's meaning at the last chapter of the book, which is a series of humorous vignettes, each of which builds slowly, through accumulation of layer on layer of detail, through several pages. Most of them concern bicycling, genial commentary on German culture from the point of view of a British tourist, or situation-comedy-like depictions of interpersonal interactions between the characters.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudioliterature
    Release dateJul 24, 2017
    Author

    Jerome K Jerome

    Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in 1859 and was brought up in London. He started work as a railway clerk at fourteen, and later was employed as a schoolmaster, actor and journalist. He published two volumes of comic essays and in 1889 Three Men in a Boat. This was an instant success. His new-found wealth enabled him to become one of the founders of The Idler, a humorous magazine which published pieces by W W Jacobs, Bret Harte, Mark Twain and others. In 1900 he wrote a sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, which follows the adventures of the three protagonists on a walking tour through Germany. Jerome married in 1888 and had a daughter. He served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War and died in 1927.

    More audiobooks from Jerome K Jerome

    Related to Three Men on the Bummel

    Related audiobooks

    Humor & Satire For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Pavlova

      Jun 30, 2022

      Pavlova
      3 min read

    • Article

      How to Make Small Talk

      May 22, 2023

      How to Make Small Talk
      15 min read

    • Article

      Between The Lines

      May 6, 2021

      The first time my dad brought home a 1,000-piece jigsaw, I was terrified. At the fresh age of seven, my puzzle-solving skills were limited to 100-piece jigsaws purchased at Dollar Tree and the vocabulary word searches my teacher expected us to comple

      6 min read

    • Article

      Maxim Australia 2020 Hot 100

      Oct 21, 2020

      Women. Influential women, talented women, sports star women, impressive women, model women, exquisite women, movie women, weather women, commercial women, amazing women, surfer women, funny women, beautiful women, pop star women, artistic women, rock

      24 min read

    • Article

      50 Years Ago, Kingsley Amis Had a Midlife Crisis and Turned to James Bond for Help

      Jul 19, 2018

      Kingsley Amis is best remembered today as the author of comic novels—perhaps even the pre-eminent writer in that genre during the second half of the 20th century. But you would hardly guess it if you looked just at his output from the late 1960s to t

      6 min read

    • Article

      Character Study

      Dec 15, 2022

      Character Study
      3 min read

    • Article

      The James Bond Trap

      Feb 12, 2024

      The James Bond Trap
      5 min read

    • Article

      ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’: A German Retelling For A Modern Time

      Oct 28, 2022

      War was sold to a young Paul Bäumer as a romantic ideal. Spurred by a patriotic teacher, he volunteers to join his fellow classmates – mere boys – on the front lines of a war that quickly manifests as anything but aspirational. The protagonist of “Al

      5 min read

    • Article

      How to Read a Squiggle

      Jul 18, 2017

      How to Read a Squiggle
      6 min read

    • Article

      In Living Memory

      Mar 3, 2020

      In Living Memory
      8 min read

    • Article

      Top Ten Sea Books

      Jun 5, 2020

      SJ AND SMH In the October of 1991, a storm of rare wickedness hit the North Atlantic. Caught up in it was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail, which went down with the loss of all hands. At that time, the author was working as a tree surgeon in the bo

      7 min read

    • Article

      Mr James And The Ghosts Of Tyneham Village

      Oct 12, 2023

      A visit to Tyneham on a dark winter afternoon is an eerie affair. Indeed, it’s the only place I have ever had a supernatural experience – one that left me unsettled rather than terrified, and one that involved the Editor of The Field, who had come to

      2 min read

    • Article

      5 Key Concepts

      Aug 31, 2020

      “South Africa will always be part of my own story now,” says British journalist Damian Barr. For his first novel, YOU WILL BE SAFE HERE (Bloomsbury, R295), Barr portrays predators warped by history following their prey through three generations, and

      1 min read

    • Article

      Welcome Returns For Three Irish Writers

      Apr 1, 2022

      These Days Lucy Caldwell (Faber, £12.99) Homesickness Colin Barrett (Jonathan Cape, £14.99) The Geometer Lobachevsky Adrian Duncan (Tuskar Rock, £14.99) THE STUFFY OLD WORLD of publishing is no more immune to neophilia than the rest of our society an

      6 min read

    • Article

      The BEST & THE WURST

      Dec 13, 2020

      The BEST & THE WURST
      10 min read

    • Article

      On The Roman Road

      Jan 11, 2023

      On The Roman Road
      3 min read

    • Article

      Michael Wood On…

      Nov 25, 2021

      We had a family trip to our local cinema the other week to see the new James Bond film. How nice to be back, however briefly it may be, in “live” cinema. The film, No Time to Die, had gripping action sequences and an engaging emotional plotline, endi

      3 min read

    • Article

      Live And Let Live

      Apr 9, 2020

      Live And Let Live
      12 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Three Men on the Bummel

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words