The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

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  • Genre Travel in Europe
  • Publisher Penguin
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  • Size 8.27 MB
  • Length 564 Pages

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The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past-the ancient statues of saints on the Cathedral of Notre Dame are "battered and broken-nosed old fellows" and tour guides "interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling."

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