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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.
The Awful German Language" is an 1880 essay by Mark Twain published as Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad. [1] The essay is a humorous exploration of the frustrations a native speaker of English has with learning German as a second language.
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.
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 .
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Building on exchanges he had with readers of his e-mail list, in 2018 Clear published his book Atomic Habits on how to build tiny, frequent habits that have a large beneficial and cumulative effect on one's life. According to the intro of his book, he had to build such habits when rehabilitating from a severe cranial injury that he suffered ...
The Innocents Abroad (1869) Roughing It (1872) A Tramp Abroad (1880) Following the Equator (1897) Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Palmetto Leaves (1873) John Burroughs (1837–1921) Fresh Fields (1884) William Dean Howells (1837–1920) Certain Delightful English Towns (1906) Henry James (1843–1916) A Little Tour in France (1884) English ...
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