The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain went abroad in 1867 aboard the steamship Quaker City, and the letters he mailed home became this comic account of a five-month tour through Europe and the Holy Land. He pokes fun at his fellow pilgrims, the guides who inflate the history of every relic, and the reverent travel writers who came before him. Paris, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem all pass under his skeptical, wisecracking eye. Behind the jokes sits a sharp American looking hard at the Old World and refusing to be impressed on cue. It was the best-selling of Twain’s books during his lifetime and did much to make his name. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.
About the Author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was born in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the banks of the Mississippi. Most of his fiction would later draw on that childhood, sometimes directly. He worked as a printer’s apprentice, then…
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