Mark Twain’s first major book, The Innocents Abroad (1869), remains one of the funniest travel narratives ever written and the one that made him famous. Armed with a cheerful and thoroughgoing lack of reverence for European culture and the Holy Land alike, Twain deflates tourist piety, romantic cliché, and guidebook solemnity at every stop — while remaining deeply observant and, at certain unexpected moments, genuinely moved.
The book launched one of the greatest literary careers in American history and has never lost its power to make readers laugh out loud. Download this free EPUB and join the most irreverent grand tour in all of literary history.