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The Innocents Abroad (1869)
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The Innocents Abroad (1869) Hardcover - 1997

by Mark Twain; Introduction by Mordecai Richler; David E. Sloane (With)


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The Innocents Abroad, also known as The New Pilgrims’ Progress, was written by American author Mark Twain, and first published by the American Publishing Company in 1869. The humorous travel book follows the voyage of Mark Twain and his fellow travelers on a retired Civil War ship titled the USS Quaker City. While traveling through Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land, Mark Twain critically (but comically) examines both his tourist shipmates and the tour guides he encounters throughout his travels. While also famous for such novels as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Innocents Abroad was Mark Twain’s bestselling book during his lifetime.

From the publisher

In 1867, Mark Twain set out from New York City for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle-steamer Quaker City. The result of that trip was The Innocents Abroad, a travel book unlike any that had gone before it. Irreverent and irrepressible, Twain pokes fun at officious tour guides and offensive tourists alike. The book offers a glimpse of a major writer when he was young and just beginning to flex his muscles, and also serves as an enduring no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler to Europe and the Holy Land. The trip stimulates Twain to meditate on how the new world is different from the old and engenders reflections on what a society must be like to be thought of as genuinely civilized. The Innocents Abroad is alternately profound and profoundly entertaining. Twain may find himself exasperated or exhausted--but the story he tells is never dull. It is no wonder that the book was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.

First Edition Identification

The first edition of Innocents Abroad was published by American Publishing Company in Hartford Connecticut in 1869. Sales of the novel, including pirated editions, quickly rose to over 200,000. 

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  • Title The Innocents Abroad (1869)
  • Author Mark Twain; Introduction by Mordecai Richler; David E. Sloane (With)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Thus
  • Pages 784
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date March 6, 1997
  • ISBN 9780195114027 / 0195114027
  • Weight 2.85 lbs (1.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 6.4 x 2.1 in (21.84 x 16.26 x 5.33 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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