The Innocents Abroad

Author：Mark Twain

Publisher: Signet; Reissue edition (2007/4/3)

Original language book name: 在国外的无辜者

Series Title: Signet Classics

简装: 560 pages

Language: 英语

ISBN: 0451530497

EAN: 9780451530493

Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 3.7 x 17.1 cm

Item Weight: 259 g 

书籍简介

One of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, here is an irreverent and incisive commentary on the "New Barbarians'" encounter with the Old World. Twain's hilarious satire impales with sharp wit both the chauvinist and the cosmopolitan.

作者简介

In his person and in his pursuits, Mark Twain (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.”