Author: Mark TwainPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress from the New World to the Old
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The innocents abroad, or, The new Pilgrims' progress
Author: Mark TwainThe Innocents Abroad (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Innocents Abroad is a travel book which humorously chronicles the trip Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion," on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867. The excursion was billed as a Holy Land expedition, with numerous stops and side trips along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, such as the train excursion from Marseille to Paris for the 1867 Paris Exhibition during the reign of Napoleon III and the Second French Empire, a journey through the Papal States to Rome, a side trip through the Black Sea to Odessa, and finally culminating in an excursion through the Holy Land. Twain recorded his observations and critiques of the various aspects of culture and society which he encountered on the journey, some more serious than others. Many of his observations draw a contrast between his own experiences and the often grandiose accounts in contemporary travelogues, which were regarded in their own time as indispensable aids for traveling in the region. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He is best known for his two novels – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but his satirical stories and travel books are also widely popular. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned him praise from critics and peers. He was lauded as the greatest American humorist of his age.
The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress
Author: TwainA Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Writings of Mark Twain: The innocents abroad, The new Pilgrims' progress
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307432319
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twain’s lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out, “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” And Jane Jacobs observes in her Introduction, “If the reader is American, he may also find himself on a tour of his own psyche.”
The innocents abroad, or the new pilgrims' progress; being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land
Author: Samuel Langhorne ClemensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Chapters from My Autobiography
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775417077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Renowned American humorist Mark Twain turns his incisive wit loose on his own life story in this unique take on the nineteenth-century memoir. Originally composed in a format that studiously ignored the careful chronological structure that most autobiographies follow, these essays were first published in book form ten years after the author's death. Twain fans will love the author's account of his quintessentially American upbringing, wildly zig-zagging career path, and gradual transition into the writing life.