The Innocents Abroad (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain
- First Published: 1869
- Type of Work: Travel literature
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Tourist trade, Middle East, Architecture or architects
- Locales: Europe, Holy Land
It must have seemed a clever idea to send a popular young comic journalist on a tour with a boatload of prominent citizens in order to record, as The Innocents Abroad did, the day-to-day experience of Americans having a good time in the exotic old countries. When the book came out, however, the reaction was not entirely favorable. Twain had confirmed what every American already knew—that Europe was terribly run-down and was greedy for the dollars of rich Americans. He also suggested that the Americans often made fools of themselves and quite as often were downright...
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