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The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (2003, Paperback) 
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (2003, Paperback)

 
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (2003, Paperback)

Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: 2003-02-01
Series: Modern Library Classics
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0812967054
ISBN-13: 9780812967050
Product ID: EPID2367925
Description: Twain's two characters, "Mr. Brown" and himself, tour Europe and send home a series of raucous, deadpan, hilarious reports that serve both to declare the independence of American writers from their European models, and to initiate the st...
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Synopsis
Twain's two characters, "Mr. Brown" and himself, tour Europe and send home a series of raucous, deadpan, hilarious reports that serve both to declare the independence of American writers from their European models, and to initiate the stereotype of the "ugly American." The book was originally published in 1869 after Twain himself returned from an extensive trip to Europe.

Details
Publication Date:2003-02-01
Series:Modern Library Classics

Size
Length:523 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:13.6 oz

Publisher's Note
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.”

Industry Reviews
"The reader becomes dimly conscious that Mr. Clemens' fellow-passengers would have probably stopped this gentle satirist from going with them could they have forecast his book."
Bret Harte

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