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出版Oxford University Press, 1996
主題Literary Collections / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialTravel / Europe / GeneralTravel / Europe / WesternTravel / Essays & TraveloguesTravel / Middle East / General
ISBN01951140279780195114027
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fosOAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.