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'.
| ISBN: | 9780142437087 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2003 |
| Author: | Mark Twain, Tom Quirk, Guy Cardwell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 214 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic travel writing |
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'.
The Innocents Abroad features in the following genres: Classic travel writing
The Innocents Abroad is available in Paperback
The Innocents Abroad was written by Mark Twain, Tom Quirk, Guy Cardwell and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Innocents Abroad has 214 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Classics series