The Innocents Abroad and The New Pilgrim's Progress

The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American New Barbarians and the European Old World provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain - and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twain's lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity.

Hardcover. English. Chatto & Windus. 1882. 613 pp with 32 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear dated December 1889. Red cloth hard cover with gilt titles and black decorative figures on spine and front. Sides of top of spine damaged and a little near spine of upper cover.Some light foxing at front and rear. Ex-libris on frotn end paper. Book No: 500253