The Innocents Abroad (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved James M’s request to change the contributors of The Innocents Abroad Sunday, November 29 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Mark Twain: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Edited a contributor: Tom Quirk: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Guy Cardwell: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: M. Richler: (Primary AuthorNone)

James M edited the contributors of The Innocents Abroad Sunday, November 29 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Mark Twain: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Edited a contributor: Tom Quirk: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Guy Cardwell: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: M. Richler: (Primary AuthorNone)

Shelfari edited the description of The Innocents Abroad Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• 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."

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Innocents Abroad Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: M. Richler: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Mark Twain: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Guy Cardwell: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Tom Quirk: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Innocents Abroad Thursday, July 16 2009.

• 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.

something witty approved Kevin’s request to change the title of The Innocents Abroad Monday, July 6 2009.

Kevin changed the title of The Innocents Abroad Monday, July 6 2009.