The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain · 1869 CE · Narrative Non-fiction · Modern / American · Victorian

A shipload of American pilgrims tours Europe and the Holy Land aboard a chartered paddle steamer, guidebooks in hand and reverence expected of them at every ruin. The narrator declines to be impressed, measuring Old Master paintings and holy relics against the plain evidence in front of him. The book that made its author famous, and the founding text of American irreverence abroad.

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