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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100451513797
ISBN-139780451513793
eBay Product ID (ePID)120716065
Product Key Features
Book TitleInnocents Abroad
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Essays & Travelogues, Literary, Europe / General
Publication Year1966
GenreTravel, Fiction
AuthorMark Twain
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length5 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal818/.403 B
SynopsisBased on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, "The Innocents Abroad" (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past-the ancient statues of saints on the Cathedral of Notre Dame are "battered and broken-nosed old fellows" and tour guides "interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling." Equally irreverent about American manners (including his own) as he is about European attitudes, Twain ultimately concludes that, for better or worse, "human nature is very much the same all over the world.
