Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It (LOA #21)

Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It (LOA #21)
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Library of America
Total Pages: 1078
Release: 1984-12-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780940450257

This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the most popular travel books ever written. The Innocents Abroad (1869), based largely on letters written for New York and San Francisco papers, narrates the progress of the first American organized tour of Europe—to Naples, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Palestine. In his account Mark Twain assumes two alternate roles: at times the no-nonsense American who refuses to automatically venerate the famous sights of the Old World (preferring Lake Tahoe to Lake Como), or at times the put-upon simpleton, a gullible victim of flatterers and “frauds,” and an awestruck admirer of Russian royalty. The result is a hilarious blend of vaudevillian comedy, actual travel guide, and stinging satire, directed at both the complacency of his fellow American travelers and their reverence for European relics. Out of the book emerges the first full-dress portrait of Mark Twain himself, the breezy, shrewd, and comical manipulator of English idioms and America’s mythologies about itself and its relation to the past. Roughing It (1872) is the lighthearted account of Mark Twain’s actual and imagined adventures when he escaped the Civil War and joined his brother, the recently appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His accounts of stagecoach travel, Native Americans, frontier society, the Mormons, the Chinese, and the codes, dress, food, and customs of the West are interspersed with his own experiences as a prospector, miner, journalist, boon companion, and lecturer as he traveled through Nevada, Utah, California, and even to the Hawaiian Islands. Mark Twain’s passage from tenderfoot to old-timer is accomplished through a long series of increasingly comical episodes. The plot is relaxed enough to accommodate some immensely funny and random character sketches, animal fables, tall tales, and dramatic monologues. The result is an enduring picture of the old Western frontier in all its original vigor and variety. In these two works, never before brought together so compactly, Mark Twain achieves his mastery of the vernacular style. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad
Author: M. Twain
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 687
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN: 5878352567

Being some account of the steamship quaker city's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; With descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they appeared to the author. With two hundred and thirty-four illustrations.

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad
Author: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 698
Release: 1882
Genre: Europe
ISBN:

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0486120740

Bestselling classic records Twain's keen wit and amusing observations during his trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867. Edition also includes all of the original work's charming illustrations. 234 black-and-white illustrations.

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad
Author: Twain, Mark
Publisher: Delmarva Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 625
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

(This Book is Illustrated) The Innocents Abroad is a humorous book by Mark Twain and about his travels on what Twain his great Pleasure Excursion on board the chartered vessel Quaker City Through Europe and the Holy land with the group of American Travelers in 1867. It was one of Mark Twain's Bestsellers during his lifetime.

Innocents Abroad

Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
Total Pages: 693
Release: 2001-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1582182493

Innocents Abroad began as a series of travel letters written by Mark Twain mainly for the Alta California, a San Francisco paper that sponsored his participation in the trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 aboard the steamship Quaker City. On the excursion from New York to Palestine they traveled a distance of over 20,000 miles by land and sea through France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, Turkey and Egypt. Through his humorous and insightful writings, Twain describes countries, nations, incidents and his amazing adventures.