Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780817355210)

Gathers the very best passages from all five of Mark Twain's travel narratives

Mark Twain on the Move gathers the very best passages from all five of Mark Twain's travel narratives: The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), A Tramp Abroad (1880), Life on the Mississippi (1883), and Following the Equator (1897). Although Twain's travel narratives were his best sellers throughout his career, modern readers are largely unfamiliar with them. Thus, readers are not only missing some of Twain's most hilarious and insightful material, they are also missing a complete understanding of a beloved literary and cultural icon.

Mark Twain on the Move presents the best of these works--sometimes respectful, often irreverent and outlandish--at their most lively and captures his renowned experiences as an American tourist. And they demonstrate why Twain's greatest popularity in his lifetime derived from his travel writings rather than from his novels. Twain was always entertaining and provocative while on the move and this collection captures that fabled energy for modern readers.

Author: Alan Gribben, Mark Twain
ISBN-10: 0817355219
ISBN-13: 9780817355210
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2008
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.48w x 0.71d