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A beautiful edition with the formatting and all 234 images from the original first edition published in 1869. The cover is from an Antonio Joli painting of Rome. Use Amazon's Lookinside feature to compare this edition with others. You'll be impressed by the differences. Don't be fooled by other versions…
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2 authors picked The Innocents Abroad as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is Mark Twain’s hilarious, grumpy account of his travels, mostly through the Mediterranean region just after the Civil War. Even though it’s over a hundred years old, I laughed out loud and found a lot of it to be still recognizable from my own travels.
But it’s also kind of disturbingly non-politically correct, raising lots of troubling questions for me, anyway, about how Americans looked at Catholics and Muslims.
From Lawrence's list on experience the Mediterranean like a 19th-century American.
I love this book because it might be the quintessential American book. Mark Twain brings an American perspective to his European travels that has, to my mind, never been matched.
His pose—the comic character he creates—is at once naïve and shrewdly intelligent, penetrating in his take on Europe and the Middle East. I love this book, but I also love Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. With Mark Twain, you can’t go wrong.
From Alan's list on surviving an American presidential election.
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