Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. When you dive into Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th century „touring” than you might think you want to learn. This is a tough, literary journey. It was tough for Twain and his fellow „pilgrims”,...

The book reflects the state of 19th-century society in the United States – votes in the Senate and Congress are bought and sold, all this is carefully hidden and masked. The curse of the „Tennessee” land, which could but did not enrich the young people who are the heirs of this land, is largely activated by the heirs themselves – typical Americans of that time, who want to quickly make a fortune.