The Innocents Abroad [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Twain, Mark; Fishkin, Shelley Fisher

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ISBN 10: 0195101324 ISBN 13: 9780195101324

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

In 1867, Mark Twain set out from New York City for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle-steamerQuaker City. The result of that trip was The Innocents Abroad, a travel book unlike any that had gone before it. Irreverent and irrepressible, Twain pokes fun at officious tour guides and offensive tourists alike. The book offers a glimpse of a major writer when he was young and just beginning to flex his muscles, and also serves as an enduring no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler to Europe and the Holy Land. The trip stimulates Twain to meditate on how the "new world" is different from the "old" and engenders reflections on what a society must be like to be thought of as genuinely "civilized."The Innocents Abroad is alternately profound and profoundly entertaining. Twain may find himself exasperated or exhausted--but the story he tells is never dull. It is no wonder that the book was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.

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• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0195101324
• ISBN 13: 9780195101324
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 744