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Edité par The Modern Library, 2003
ISBN 10 : 0812967054ISBN 13 : 9780812967050
Vendeur : Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, Etats-Unis
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Trade Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. Reprint. Reprint. Minor general wear. 2003 Trade Paperback. xxvi, 523 pp. Come 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 not.
Edité par The Modern Library, 2003
ISBN 10 : 0812967054ISBN 13 : 9780812967050
Vendeur : Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
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Paperback. Etat : New. The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American 'New Barbarians' and the European 'Old World' provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain-and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twain's lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out, 'Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquited by vegetating in one little corner ofthe earth all one's lifetime.'.