Innocents Abroad
Twain, Mark
`Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party`? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World - to Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Constantinople, Sebastopol, Balaklava, Damascus, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings and sculptures of the `Old Masters`. He responded with wonder and amazement, but also with exasperation, irritation, disbelief. Above all he displayed the great energy of his humour, more...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-636-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
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