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A Tramp Abroad
by Mark Twain (PSUED Samuel Langhorne Clemens) [1835-1910]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- About very good
- Seller
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About This Item
xxiii+564+32[ads] pages with frontispiece. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering and black embossed decoration, back cover has black embossed "CW" decoration. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1880. 314 illustrations by W F Brown, True Williams, B Day and Mark Twain. First edition, later issue.
By 1878, Mark Twain had been living the life of a world-famous author for quite a while despite the fact that, after the hugely successful travelogue The Innocents Abroad, each new book of his had sold worse than the last. His latest offering, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, had been a particularly disappointing failure sales-wise. Twain decided he'd best go back to what had worked in the past — and disappear from Connecticut for a bit so his neighbors wouldn't find out about his financial straits — and relocate the family to Europe for a while while he cranked out a new travelogue,
A Tramp Abroad. The Innocents Abroad was the account of a preplanned package tour; in A Tramp Abroad, Twain has to set his own agenda, and spends almost the entirety of the 600 pages in southern Germany and Switzerland. But at this point in his career Twain doesn't need much in the way of incident to fill a book. The slightest prompt can provide grist for a chapter or three, whether it be a rant about hotels, a retelling of a German fairy tale, a 50-page mountain climbing story piling absurdity on top of absurdity, a straightforward account of student duels in Heidelberg, an awestruck paean to the beauty of the Alps, you name it. It's as shapeless as a weblog, but thoroughly entertaining all the way through; Twain, about to run off a string of now-famous titles, has evolved from a guy who can crack a joke to one who can take a stage and keep an audience transfixed for hours, and not entirely with comedy.
Condition:
Former owner's name on end page with date "1881", stain on back board, soiled. About a very good copy.
Extended Description and Notes
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent. The book is the fourth of Mark Twain's six travel books published during his lifetime and is often thought to be an unofficial sequel to the first one, The Innocents Abroad (1869).
Synopsis
A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent.
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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SL002
- Title
- A Tramp Abroad
- Author
- Mark Twain (PSUED Samuel Langhorne Clemens) [1835-1910]
- Book Condition
- Used - About very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Pages
- xxiii+564+32[ads] pages with frontispiece
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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