Description
| Product ID: | 9780142437087 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Innocents Abroad |
| Authors: | Author: Mark Twain |
| Page Count: | 560 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Based on letters Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, this book is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-19th century. Based on letters 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 perspective was fresh and irreverent: tour guides, he writes, ''interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling'' and the saints on the Cathedral of Notre Dame are ''battered and broken-nosed old fellows''. As unimpressed by American manners as he is by European attitudes, Twain concludes that ''human nature is very much the same all over the world''. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-01-30 |
