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Author: Mark Twain Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0140436081 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 0
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Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, A TRAMP ABROAD includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mount Blanc by telescope, as well as the author's attempts to study art - a wholly imagined activity Twain 'authenticated' with his own wonderfully primitive pictures included in this volume. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Mark Twain Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0140436081 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, A TRAMP ABROAD includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mount Blanc by telescope, as well as the author's attempts to study art - a wholly imagined activity Twain 'authenticated' with his own wonderfully primitive pictures included in this volume. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Mark Twain Publisher: ISBN: Category : Europe Languages : en Pages : 658
Book Description
Twain's account of traveling in Europe. A Tramp Abroad sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture. A Tramp Abroad includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mont Blanc by telescope, as well as the author's attempts to study art.
Author: Mark Twain Publisher: Delphi Classics ISBN: 1786568195 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 293
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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Tramp Abroad’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Mark Twain’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Twain includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘A Tramp Abroad’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Twain’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Author: Mark Twain Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 3736811624 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 335
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He kept his word. We heard his horn and instantly got up. It was dark and cold and wretched. As I fumbled around for the matches, knocking things down with my quaking hands, I wished the sun would rise in the middle of the day, when it was warm and bright and cheerful, and one wasn't sleepy. We proceeded to dress by the gloom of a couple sickly candles, but we could hardly button anything, our hands shook so. I thought of how many happy people there were in Europe, Asia, and America, and everywhere, who were sleeping peacefully in their beds, and did not have to get up and see the Rigi sunrise—people who did not appreciate their advantage, as like as not, but would get up in the morning wanting more boons of Providence.
Author: Марк Твен Publisher: Litres ISBN: 5457701662 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 437
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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.
Author: Mark Twain Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 373681156X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 278
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One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe on foot. After much thought, I decided that I was a person fitted to furnish to mankind this spectacle. So I determined to do it. This was in March, 1878.
Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 775
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CHAPTER I [The Knighted Knave of Bergen] One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe on foot. After much thought, I decided that I was a person fitted to furnish to mankind this spectacle. So I determined to do it. This was in March, 1878. I looked about me for the right sort of person to accompany me in the capacity of agent, and finally hired a Mr. Harris for this service. It was also my purpose to study art while in Europe. Mr. Harris was in sympathy with me in this. He was as much of an enthusiast in art as I was, and not less anxious to learn to paint. I desired to learn the German language; so did Harris. Toward the middle of April we sailed in the Holsatia, Captain Brandt, and had a very pleasant trip, indeed. After a brief rest at Hamburg, we made preparations for a long pedestrian trip southward in the soft spring weather, but at the last moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train. We made a short halt at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and found it an interesting city. I would have liked to visit the birthplace of Gutenburg, but it could not be done, as no memorandum of the site of the house has been kept. So we spent an hour in the Goethe mansion instead. The city permits this house to belong to private parties, instead of gracing and dignifying herself with the honor of possessing and protecting it. Frankfort is one of the sixteen cities which have the distinction of being the place where the following incident occurred. Charlemagne, while chasing the Saxons (as he said), or being chased by them (as they said), arrived at the bank of the river at dawn, in a fog. The enemy were either before him or behind him; but in any case he wanted to get across, very badly. He would have given anything for a guide, but none was to be had. Presently he saw a deer, followed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would seek a ford, and he was right. She waded over, and the army followed. So a great Frankish victory or defeat was gained or avoided; and in order to commemorate the episode, Charlemagne commanded a city to be built there, which he named Frankfort—the ford of the Franks. None of the other cities where this event happened were named for it. This is good evidence that Frankfort was the first place it occurred at. Frankfort has another distinction—it is the birthplace of the German alphabet; or at least of the German word for alphabet—buchstaben. They say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—buchstabe—hence the name. ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR TITIAN'S MOSES THE AUTHOR'S MEMORIES THE BLACK KNIGHT OPENING HIS VIZIER THE ENRAGED EMPEROR THE PORTIER ONE OF THOSE BOYS SCHLOSS HOTEL IN MY CAGE HEIDELBERG CASTLE HEIDELBERG CASTLE, RIVER FRONTAGE THE RETREAT JIM BAKER "A BLUE FLUSH ABOUT IT" COULD NOT SEE IT THE BEER KING THE LECTURER'S AUDIENCE INDUSTRIOUS STUDENTS IDLE STUDENT COMPANIONABLE INTERCOURSE AN IMPOSING SPECTACLE AN ADVERTISEMENT "UNDERSTANDS HIS BUSINESS" THE OLD SURGEON THE FIRST WOUND THE CASTLE COURT WOUNDED FAVORITE STREET COSTUME INEFFACEABLE SCARS PIECE OF SWORD FRENCH CALM THE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED A SEARCH HE SWOONED PONDEROUSLY I ROLLED HIM OVER THE ONE I HIRED THE MARCH TO THE FIELD THE POST OF DANGER THE RECONCILIATION AN OBJECT OF ADMIRATION WAGNER RAGING ROARING SHRIEKING A CUSTOMARY THING ONE OF THE "REST" A CONTRIBUTION BOX CONSPICUOUS TAIL PIECE ONLY A SHRIEK "HE ONLY CRY" LATE COMERS CARED FOR EVIDENTLY DREAMING "TURN ON MORE RAIN" HARRIS ATTENDING THE OPERA PAINTING MY GREAT PICTURE OUR START AN UNKNOWN COSTUME THE TOWER SLOW BUT SURE THE ROBBER CHIEF AN HONEST MAN THE TOWN BY NIGHT GENERATIONS OF BAREFEET OUR BEDROOM PRACTICING PAWING AROUND A NIGHT'S WORK LEAVING HEILBRONN THE CAPTAIN WAITING FOR THE TRAIN A DEEP
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Марк Твен
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)