Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad

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Based 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."

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Über den Autor

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Mark Twain spent his youth in Hannibal, Missouri, which forms the setting for his two greatest works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Trying his hand at printing, typesetting and then gold-mining, the former steam-boat pilot eventually found his calling in journalism and travel writing. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner, Twain died in 1910 after a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success.

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Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Reiseberichte
Region:	Reiseerzählungen
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Penguin Classics
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780142437087
ISBN-10:	0142437085
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Twain, Mark
Solist:	Quirk, Tom
Zusammengestellt:	Cardwell, Guy
Auflage:	Revised
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Classics
Maße:	198 x 128 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Twain
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.01.2003
Gewicht:	0,381 kg

Artikel-ID: 104038229

Über den Autor

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Reiseberichte
Region:	Reiseerzählungen
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Penguin Classics
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780142437087
ISBN-10:	0142437085
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Twain, Mark
Solist:	Quirk, Tom
Zusammengestellt:	Cardwell, Guy
Auflage:	Revised
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Classics
Maße:	198 x 128 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Twain
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.01.2003
Gewicht:	0,381 kg