品牌：Mark Twain
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：560 页码
·出版日：2002年
·ISBN：0142437085
·条码：9780142437087
·版次：New
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
·丛书名：Penguin Classics
内容简介
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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."
作者简介
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was born Samuel Longhorn Clemens in Florida, Missouri, and died in Redding, Connecticut. A satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, he is one of America's greatest novelists.
Tom Quirk is currently the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The author of several books, he is the editor ofMark Twain's Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketchesfor Penguin Classics.
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FromAudioFile
[Editor's Note: The following is a combined review with MYSTERIOUS STRANGER AND OTHER STORIES.]--These two Twain titles were recorded in the mid 1980s. INNOCENTS is an early Twain work, expanding on a jocular series of travel articles he wrote on a Grand Tour of Europe and the Holy Land. Without trying to imitate Twain, narrator Prichard, who has recorded a number of titles by the same author, nicely plays the vigor, lightness, and wit of the original. He has a distinctly middle-aged sound, and the sharpish register of his voice cuts through the technical muddiness of the recording. Kent's voice does not. In STRANGER, we hear almost every edit, and there are many in his rendition of eight Twain short stories. The selection represents the author's entire career from the early, ironic "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" to the late, bitter "Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg." Kent's excellent diction ensures that we miss not a word; on the down side, his reading is dry. Y.R. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine--Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
?A classic work . . . [that] marks a critical point in the development of our literature.??Leslie A. Fiedler--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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