A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain

leden 2012 · Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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 A Tramp Abroad is a Travel Literature book that a little bit of an autobiography and fictional events of the renowned author Mark Twain. This book is about the travels of the author and his friend Harris though Europe and the object is to walk the whole way the end up using some form of travel or another. This is also thought to be the unofficial sequel to the Innocents Abroad.

O autorovi

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.