{"product_id":"the-innocents-abroad-paperback","title":"The Innocents Abroad - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Meyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eLeslie Feidler\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, \u003ci\u003eThe Innocents Abroad \u003c\/i\u003eis Mark Twain's irreverent and incisive commentary on nineteenth century Americans encountering the Old World. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCome along for the ride as Twain and his unsuspecting travel companions visit the Azores, Tangiers, Paris, Rome, the Vatican, Genoa, Gibraltar, Odessa, Constantinople, Cairo, the Holy Land and other locales renowned in history. No person or place is safe from Twain's sharp wit as it impales both the conservative and the liberal, the Old World and the New. He uses these contrasts to \"find out who we as Americans are,\" notes Leslie A. Fiedler. But his travelogue demonstrates that, in our attempt to understand ourselves, we must first find out what we are \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With an Introduction Michael Meyer and an Afterword by Leslie A. Fiedler\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a glimpse of a major writer when he was and just beginning to flex his muscles, and also serves as an enduring no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler of Europe and the Holy Land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his person and in his pursuits, \u003cb\u003eMark Twain \u003c\/b\u003e(1835-1910) 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 sentimental--and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia for the past helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called \"the Lincoln of our literature.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Meyer\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut, is a former president of the Thoreau Society and the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Thoreau Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e, a standard reference. His first book, \u003ci\u003eSeveral More Lives to Live: Thoreau's Political Reputation in America\u003c\/i\u003e, was awarded the Ralph henry Gabriel Prize by the American Studies Association. In addition to \u003ci\u003eThe Bedford Introduction to Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, his edited volumes include \u003ci\u003eFrederick Douglas: The Narrative and Selected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeslie A. Fielder \u003c\/b\u003e(1917-2003) was a longtime professor of English at Montana State University and then the Samuel Langhorne Clemens Professor of Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was the author of four novels, as well as many influential works of criticism including \u003ci\u003eLife and Death in the American Novel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Was Literature? Class Culture and Mass Society\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his many awards is the Modern Language Association's Hubbell Medal for lifetime contribution to the study of American literature.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.49 x 6.8 x 4.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756011225376,"sku":"9780451530493","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/63502e7c344757cc6e02709f242cf1dd.webp?v=1780072665","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-innocents-abroad-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}