Library of America, December Date: 1984. Hardcover. Used Good. Dust Jacket is wrapped in mylar Brodart covering, which is removable. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. Some pages have light foxing (tan spots or browning). We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item. 1984. Library of America ISBN 0940450259 9780940450257 [US]

Library of America 1984 Hardcover Used Good Dust Jacket is wrapped in mylar Brodart covering, which is removable. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. Some pages have light foxing (tan spots or browning). Firefly Bookstore sells items online and in our store front. We try to add images and descriptions when we can, but if you need additional information or photos of the books we list, please contact us.

ISBN10: 0940450259, ISBN13: 9780940450257, [publisher: Library of America December 1984] Hardcover
[Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1984]

ISBN10: 0940450259, ISBN13: 9780940450257, [publisher: The Library of America] Hardcover
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1984]

ISBN10: 0940450259, ISBN13: 9780940450257, [publisher: The Library of America, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity.The Innocents AbroadandRoughing It(sometimes calledThe Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the most popular travel books ever written.The Innocents Abroad(1869), based largely on letters written for New York and San Francisco papers, narrates the progress of the first American organized tour of Europe-to Naples, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Palestine. In his account Mark Twain assumes two alternate roles- at times the no-nonsense American who refuses to automatically venerate the famous sights of the Old World (preferring Lake Tahoe to Lake Como), or at times the put-upon simpleton, a gullible victim of flatterers and "frauds," and an awestruck admirer of Russian royalty.The result is a hilarious blend of vaudevillian comedy, actual travel guide, and stinging satire, directed at both the complacency of his fellow American travelers and their reverence for European relics. Out of the book emerges the first full-dress portrait of Mark Twain himself, the breezy, shrewd, and comical manipulator of English idioms and America's mythologies about itself and its relation to the past.Roughing It(1872) is the lighthearted account of Mark Twain's actual and ...