A Tramp Abroad (The Oxford Mark Twain) - Hardcover

Twain, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195101375 ISBN 13: 9780195101379

Verlag: OUP USA, 1997

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Book by Mark Twain

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A tongue-in-cheek travelogue following in the tradition of the immensely popular Innocents Abroad in which Twain and his mysterious travelling companion Mr. Harris make their way through Germany and across the Alps into Italy.

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A Tramp Abroad, published in 1880, is Mark Twain's second travel book, a sequel to his immensely popular The Innocents Abroad. Here Twain returns to Europe in the company, as Russell Banks puts it in his introduction, of a genial "goad, guide, and all-purpose straight man" modeled on his friend and real-life traveling companion, Joe Twitchell, who "plays Butch Cassidy to Twain's Sundance, Sancho to his Quixote." The eccentric journey they take through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and other countries constantly veers into imaginative burlesques, exaggerations, tall tales, and humorous digressions, the most well known of which are the inimitable "Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn" and "The Awful German Language." The travelers gamely take in student duels, Wagnerian opera, and the works of the Old Masters; they travel by raft, train, and donkey cart, listen to folk legends and dreadful pianists, scale the Alps, and view cathedrals he found noble in their ugliness. But the sight that cheers them most is that of New York harbor on their return. A Tramp Abroad, Banks reminds us, celebrates two "American males clearly blessed with the gift of friendship, of giving it and of receiving and holding onto it."

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0195101375
• ISBN 13: 9780195101379
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 704