Wednesday, March 11, 2015

How Mark Twain Changed Travel Writing Forever

HuffPost Arts & Books

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"Clemens could not have foreseen that the book he ultimately wrote about the voyage, The Innocents Abroad, would make him rich and famous under his pen name, Mark Twain, and that it would become the best-selling American book since Uncle Tom's Cabin a decade and a half earlier. 

Nor could he have guessed that the book would revolutionize travel writing and inspire an entire generation of Americans to follow his example and go abroad proudly, uncowed by Old World rituals and traditions. The Innocents Abroad would give readers a new way of looking at the world -- amused, skeptical and unimpressed, which is to say, like Twain himself." (Read more here)

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