Clemens.” -Roger Boylan Boston Review “A major achevement.” - Choice “Brimming with Twain’s humor, ideas and opinions, this is a book for anyone interested in the writer’s work and life.” - “Twian’s ‘Final Plan’ has been released in a truly spectacular first volume of his posthumous ‘Autobiography’.” -Vitali Vitaliev Engineering & Technology “His '’whole frank mind,’ sharp and funny, is seared onto every page. The bard of Hannibal still has much to say.” - American Heritage “Twain would approve!” - “Mission accomplished, Mr. Pull up a chair and revel.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review “Pure Twain at his typically discursive, rambling, and droll. has given us ‘an astonishment’ in his autobiography with his final, beautifully unorganized genius and intemperate thoughts. His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe. One moment you’re on horseback in the Hawaiian islands - or recovering from saddle boils with a cigar in your mouth - and the next moment you’re meeting the Viennese maid he called, in a private joke, ‘Wuthering Heights.’ We can hardly wait for Volume 2.” - New York Times/The Opinion Pages “Twain generously provides the 21st century aficionado a marvelous read. Read, as Twain might put it, until interest pales, and then jump. This is a book for dipping, not plunging. It’s an autobiographical miscellany, a collection of Twain’s many attempts to write about his extraordinary life. And this is not, strictly speaking, an autobiography. He knew everyone, went everywhere, seemed to be interested in everything and is capable of making the reader - in 2010 - laugh on nearly every page. Mark Twain is terrific company, plain and simple. “There’s really nothing sulfurous about this book. And Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing, but less sure-footed, and at times both puzzled and puzzling in ways that still resonate with us, though not the ways we might expect.” - New York Times Now we have one of our greatest writers narrating his own autobiographical miscellany full of sorcery both previously familiar and new.” - Buffalo News “Dip into the first enormous volume of Twain’s autobiography that he had decreed should not appear until 100 years after his death. It is less academically punctilious but indeed more reader-friendly. the words ‘Reader’s Edition.’ The very idea of it is a winner. We have, emblazoned big as life on the paperback cover underneath Twain’s photo. This first installment of Twain’s autobiography brings us closer to all of him than we have ever come before.” - New York Review Of Books “Now, common sense, at last. At other times, reading it feels like eavesdropping on a conversation he is having with himself. A more accurately arranged collection than any earlier edition has been able to offer.” - American Literary Realism “Sometimes the autobiography seems Twain’s letter to posterity. Their careful assembly of Clemens’ pre-1906 materials brings readers into both Clemens’ creative realm. Just take it slow, and steady…like the journey itself.Reviews “This is a book to treasure for all friends of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.” - Acadiana Lifestyle Magazine “Smith and her companion editors have accomplished a herculean task. His references to “Indians”, “Negroes” and “infidels” come to mind.īeyond the lows, though, there are the highs of Twain’s cutting wit and insight as he guides us along the bumpy and often dangerous voyage. As with some of his other works, Twain includes popular prejudices of his time, which are today considered socially unacceptable. The truths they learn are often far different than their education and rumor have made them preconceive. What Twain records, in often humorous, sometimes grotesque but always fascinating detail, are the day-to-day ups and downs of discovering the truth about people and places. They set out, on a June day in 1867, to visit major tourist sites in Europe and the near east, including Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, “the Holy Land”, and Egypt. It was tough for Twain and his fellow “pilgrims”, both religious and otherwise. When you dive into Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens’) The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th century “touring” than you might think you want to learn. Writer/entertainer Garrison Keillor (A Prairie Home Companion) on “The Innocents Abroad”: “…one of the best selling travel books of all time.” (The Writer’s Almanac, June 8, 2012) Download cover art Download CD case insert The Innocents Abroad
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