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Description

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... read more

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First Sentence

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in America and discussed at countless firesides.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Mark Twain (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Tom Quirk
  2. Guy Cardwell
  3. Shelley Fisher Fishkin
  4. M. Richler
 

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