Titre :	The innocents abroad
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Mark Twain ; Tom Quirk ; Guy Cardwell
Editeur :	London [England] : Penguin Books
Année de publication :	2002
Collection :	Penguin classics
Importance :	xliii, 514 p..
Présentation :	couv. ill. en coul.
Format :	20 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-14-243708-7
Langues :	Anglais
Catégories :	LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:823 English fiction : novel ; LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature
Mots-clés :	Americans : History  19th century.  Middle East @@@ Americans  History  Europe
Résumé :	Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past-the ancient statues of saints on the Cathedral of Notre Dame are "battered and broken-nosed old fellows" and tour guides "interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling." Equally irreverent about American manners (including his own) as he is about European attitudes, Twain ultimately concludes that, for better or worse, "human nature is very much the same all over the world."

The innocents abroad [texte imprimé] / Mark Twain ; Tom Quirk ; Guy Cardwell . - London (England) : Penguin Books, 2002 . - xliii, 514 p.. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. - (Penguin classics) .
ISBN : 978-0-14-243708-7
Langues : Anglais

Catégories :	LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:823 English fiction : novel ; LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature
Mots-clés :	Americans : History  19th century.  Middle East @@@ Americans  History  Europe
Résumé :	Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past-the ancient statues of saints on the Cathedral of Notre Dame are "battered and broken-nosed old fellows" and tour guides "interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling." Equally irreverent about American manners (including his own) as he is about European attitudes, Twain ultimately concludes that, for better or worse, "human nature is very much the same all over the world."