“Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Above all he displayed the great energy of his humor, more explosive for us now than for his beguiled contemporaries.” More on Goodreads On Mark Twain He responded with wonder and amazement but also with exasperation, irritation, and disbelief. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings and sculptures of the Old Masters. He was making his first responses to the Old World to Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Constantinople, Sebastopol, Balaklava, Damascus, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain around 1873. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. “Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. ~Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad Plot summary “In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
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