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The Innocents Abroad

By Mark Twain

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The Innocents Abroad

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The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American "New Barbarians” and the European "Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twain's lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out, "Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” And Jane Jacobs observes in her Introduction, "If the reader is American, he may also find himself on a tour of his own psyche.”
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
496
Release Date:
2003-02-11
Publication Date:
2003-02-28
Publisher:
Random House LLC US
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0812967054
ISBN13:
9780812967050
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
619 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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