In Three Men in a Boat, J the narrator, George, Harris, and Montmorency the dog, set off on their hilarious misadventures. This book describes a similar picaresque journey constrained only by the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started. Mass Market Paperback , 207 pages Published October 23rd 1998 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 1900)