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Original Essays | April 30, 2013
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A Tramp Abroad (Penguin Classics)by Mark Twain
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Cast in the form of a waling tour through Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy, Mark Twain's account of traveling in Europe (1880) sparkles with his shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture. A TRAMP ABROAD showcases Twain's unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Illustrated by Twain.
Synopsis:Cast in the form of a burlesque walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, this travel book is a "send-up" of travel writing, Europeans, Americans abroad and Art with a capital A. The author's adventures include an ascent of Mont Blanc by telescope.
Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxi-xxxii).
About the AuthorMark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimentaland#151;and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called andldquo;the Lincoln of our literature.andrdquo; Editor Hamlin L. Hill, Distinguished Professor of English at Texas AandM University (retired), is the author of Mark Twain: God's Fool, editor of Roughing It, and he appears in Ken Burns' new PBS documentary Mark Twain. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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