A Tramp Abroad
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Humorous account of a trip through Europe at the end of the 19th century. According to Wikipedia: “Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American leader and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Fantastic American Novel and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and European royalty. Twain loved immense public popularity, and his keen wit and sharp satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American leader William Faulkner called Twain “the father of American literature.”Amazon.com Review
Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is straight away identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which clarifies why he’s become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain’s books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century “boy’s holiday book” (Twain’s own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view–he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that “annihilation has no terrors for me”). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he made an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical composition of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do lacking the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and fleeting pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you’ve got the book bargain of the millennium.
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lacking a doubt the most amusing book i have ever read. 5 stars all the way
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I listened to the audio version of both books, and will admit up front that the narrator for this one is not one of my favorites, but I got past that after a while.
Twain seemed to be “padding” the narrative with an dreadful lot of folktales and legend, rather than his own experience. There’s a lengthy (and highly annoying) “fantasy” sequence – I suppose he was trying for parody – as well. I establish myself quick-forwarding through nearly a full cassette of a gory description of two deuls (near the beginning); he delights in recounting grisly mountaineering tales later on during the novel. The storyline finished abruptly at the end of cassette 11 of 13; the last two were the appendix, which I skipped.
I really liked “Innocents” and am preparation on purchasing “Following the Equator” (I looked through it at a bookstore and it seemed pretty appealing), but I wish I’d skipped this one. Three stars for the humor when he really describes his own experiences.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
A Tramp Abroad is the third and least successful of the travel books written by the pen of Mark Twain.
In this book we follow Twain as he tours Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland. I establish the early chapters chronicling his visit to Heidelburg University; hilarious visits to opera houses and tale tales such as the Blue Jay yarn to be well done.
The longest section of the book deals with Twain’s alpine climbing adventures in Switzerland. This material is appealing but goes on a bit too long for the modern reader.
This is a fine book and deserves to be read and loved by a wider readership that better known but lesser Twain novels and
travel writing,
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys listening to a fantastic leader recount his peregrinations through Europe in a leisurely and informative manner.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I bought the paperback version of the book. The binding is of exceedingly poor quality. The first pages fall out one by one as they are read. I expect the book itself to be very excellent. Don’t buy the paperback.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book basically is a collection of tales, bound together by a travel report. The tales vary between highly witty and nearly embarrassingly average. They do not permanently fit together to make a consistent whole. But – if you skip some of the worst passages – this is one of the most amusing books one can find. As a German native speaker I especially loved the part about the “dreadful German language”.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5