The Innocents Abroad
$22.91
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2017
Summary
Mark Twain’s famously irreverent account of traveling from the New World to the Old.
One of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain’s irreverent and incisive commentary on nineteenth-century Americans encountering the Old World. Come along for the ride as Twain and his unsuspecting travel companions visit the Azores, Tangiers, Paris, Rome, the Vatican, Genoa, Gibraltar, Odessa, Constantinople, Cairo, the Holy Land, and othe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451530493 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0451530497 |
| Author: | Mark Twain |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 172mm x 105mm |
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About The Author
Mark Twain
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was a man of extraordinary contrasts. His career encompassed varied occupations such as printer, riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He lives in American letters as a great artist.
Michael Meyer, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut, is a former president of the Thoreau Society and the coauthor of The New Thoreau Handbook. His first book, Several More Lives to Live- Thoreau’s Political Reputation in America, was awarded the Ralph henry Gabriel Prize by the American Studies Association. In addition to The Bedford Introduction to Literature, his edited volumes include Frederick Douglas- The Narrative and Selected Writings.
Leslie A. Fielder (1917-2003) was a longtime professor of English at Montana State University and then the Samuel Langhorne Clemens Professor of Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was the author of four novels, as well as many influential works of criticism including Life and Death in the American Novel and What Was Literature? Class Culture and Mass Society. Among his many awards is the Modern Language Association’s Hubbell Medal for lifetime contribution to the study of American literature.
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