6/6/2023 0 Comments Author of the innocents abroadLanghorne Clemens) recognized throughout the world. Of authorial celebrity, his name (or pen name, his birth name being Samuel His career-his only previous book was The Celebrated Jumping Frog ofĬalaveras County, and Other Sketches-Twain jumped onto his own trajectory His bestselling book over the course of his lifetime and remains one of theīestselling travel books of all time. The Mississippi, or The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-it was, in fact, Would more likely go to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on Today would rank this volume as their favorite among Twain’s works-that honor On to its ultimate destination, the Holy Land. Pilgrim’s Progress, the author’s wry-eyed travelogue of theįive-and-a-half-month luxury steamship cruise that would carry him and hisįellow shipmates across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Mediterranean Sea, and Publication of Twain’s second book, The Innocents Abroad, or The New It celebrates the 150 th anniversary of the 1869 Question going through my mind as I viewed the remarkable exhibit Mark TwainĪnd the Holy Land, on display at the New-York Historical Society untilįebruary 2, 2020. In 1867, near the very start of his career, would he still have become the If the 32-year-old Mark Twain had not visited Jerusalem Through Februat the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Curated by Michael Ryan and Cristian Petru Panaite
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