Mark Twain

Gebundenes Buch

The Innocents Abroad

Beschreibung

Set in 1867, The Innocents Abroad is a travel book that follows a group of Americans from New York City to the renowned Holy Land. Throughout the journey, author Mark Twain uses humor and wit to make astute observations about the diverse people and legendary locales. Described as the "Great Pleasure Excursion," Twain and his traveling companions visit some of the most illustrious cities in the world. They make stops in Italy, France, and Greece as well as modern-day Israel and Ukraine. With each trip, the author notes the contrast between expectation and reality. He critiques the misrepresentation of cultural sites and events with notable irony and disillusion. The retelling of a worldly expedition through an American lens made >The Innocents Abroad a massive commercial success. It's one Twain's best-selling books and became a staple within the travel genre. Readers will thoroughly enjoy the author's enlightening take on the Old World and public perception. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Innocents Abroad is both modern and readable. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Autor

Mark Twain was the greatest humorist of his time---most would say of all time. But he was always more than a humorist. Even before the height of his success and fame as a humorist, Mark Twain was an 'idea' man, and that never changed. He was as interested in challenging people to think as he was in making them laugh. As he advanced in age, and after experiencing deeply personal losses and hardships, Mark Twain's humor turned darker and his attitude and ideas more cynical. Near the end of his life he wrote a series of six stories commonly known as the 'Adamic Diaries'. Four of the stories poke fun at Christianity and are dark in tone. These stories were not published until after Twain died in 1910. Two of the six stories in the series were published as illustrated books while Twain lived-Extracts from Adam's Diary in 1904 and Eve's Diary in 1906. These two stories are less pointed and much lighter in tone. We intertwined them in this volume by rearranging text and adding a little new material.Contrary to Twain's wishes, the stories were not published in one volume until after his death. Considering them separately, Eve's Dairy is primarily a tender and loving story. It is thought to be Twain's eulogy to his deceased wife, Olivia. Extracts from Adam's Diary goes mainly for laughs. The stories work well apart, but even better when read consecutively (or we think, when blended as in this volume). Twain was often taken to task for his ideas and his willingness to poke fun at people and institutions. After the publication of Eve's Diary, an article in a newspaper criticized Twain for falsifying the bible story of creation by making Eve the namer of things and creatures. Twain responded by saying story-tellers are independent of facts and privileged to rearrange them to meet the requirements of the situation. He said that when he was hot with the fires of production, he would even distort the facts of the multiplication table, let alone the facts of Genesis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781513218847
• ISBN-10: 1513218840
• Artikelnr.: 61382216