I'll nominate Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of The Dog)
Summary shamelessly nicked from Wikipedia:
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers, the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.
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here on MR as a rather spiffy epub, hand crafted by Zelda: