This book is the book of a youth on his first travels,of a boy, I may even say for although 1 really had a man's age, I was a boy, and a callow boy, too, in all other respects.
#Twain gentle reader abroad series
MYMS~ impulse was to "revise" this book before putting it on exhibition in so permanent a place as the Tauchnitz Series but my second and wiser one was to leave it undoctored. M~ MOST PATIENT READER ANU MOST CHARITABLE CRIT-IC, MY AGED MOTHER, TheĮstimated recognition rate for this document is 98%.ĪUTHOR OF "THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER," ETC. The text of this document has been generated automatically by an optical character recognition (OCR) program.
The text displayed may contain some errors. Provenance : Bibliothèque nationale de France Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Littérature et art, Z-32977(1812-13)
(320-335 p.) in-16ĭescription : ĭescription : Collection : Collection of British authors vol. Auteur du texteįormat : 2 parties en 1 vol. Title : The innocents abroad, or The new Pilgrims' progress / by Mark Twain.Īuthor : Twain, Mark (1835-1910). I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I have finished my own travels.The innocents abroad, or The new Pilgrims' progress / by Mark Twain. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother. Twain continues, "I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad and therefore is not already a consummate ass. I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I have finished my own travels." So, in the spirit of humility, let us celebrate our wanderings, our little journeys without destinations-keeping in mind that even our most profound ideas are little more than dinners at the Olive Garden compared to the "real thing." I look forward to sharing my own ideas, and I look forward to hearing from you. So instead, I would like this little spot on the Web to serve as a sort of traveler's forum, a place for exchanging adventure stories, survival tips, and those priceless hole-in-the-wall recommendations that make a journey memorable. Spiritual pride is always a temptation for the believer, and I sincerely hope it is avoided on this blog. Tell me you've done some traveling of your own and I will avert your gaze, worried you've been somewhere I haven't been.Īs with the literal traveler, I think such arrogance is just a way of glossing over how out-of-place and scared I felt when abroad, when perched on those high peaks and lost in those shadowy valleys. Suggest evangelism as a solution to Africa's problems and I will roll my eyes at your simplicity. Ask me anything about pluralism and I will wax eloquent. Having recently "returned" from a long and difficult journey through doubt, I find myself reminiscing snobbishly about all the books I've read, all the edgy and intelligent questions I've asked, and all the exotic, complicated answers I've convinced myself I've found. I think it is much the same with spiritual journeys. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad." We wish to excite the envy of our unraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off. Mark Twain said this about traveling abroad: "We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can show off and astonish people when we get home. If I gush over the gelato will she think me uncultured? I always feel foolish when I unwittingly invite such a person for an evening of much-too-rich fettuccini Alfredo and way-overcooked-nothing-like-authentic linguini. "Once you've had the real thing," she always says, " you just can't go back." She publicly disavows herself from ever eating at the Olive Garden again. Whenever a friend returns from Florence or Venice or Rome, it inevitably happens.
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