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A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880.The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe.
Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell (November 30, 1838 – December 20, 1918) was a writer and Congregational minister from Hartford, Connecticut.He was a close friend of writer Mark Twain for over forty years and is believed to be the model for the character "Harris" in A Tramp Abroad.
The book lampoons American and Western society in the same way that Innocents critiqued the various countries of Europe and the Middle East. Twain's next work was The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, his first attempt at writing a novel. The book, written with Twain's neighbor Charles Dudley Warner, is also his only collaboration.
This book by the South African soldier/explorer/writer suggests why. James Michener (1907-1997) Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections (1968) Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) Tramp Royale (1992) Peter Fleming (1907–1971) – British adventurer and travel writer One's Company: A Journey to China in 1933 — Travels through the USSR, Manchuria ...
Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to investing heavily into the failed Paige Compositor .
Goldring dedicated his 1920 novel The Black Curtain to Lawrence, and wrote an appreciation of Lawrence's work in his 1920 book Reputations. [3] Goldring became more involved in the 1917 Club, meeting there not only the President of the Club, Ramsay MacDonald, but also Aldous Huxley, C. E. M. Joad, and E. D. Morel, until it petered out in the 1930s.
54-year-old Slovenian-American Melania, a former fashion model who served as the first lady from 2017 to 2021, details how she felt “violated” by the FBI raid in her memoir.
Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted c. 1622 and now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.The couple has been identified as Isaac Massa and his bride Beatrix van der Laen.