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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.
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 and China. News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir — Journey from Peking to Srinagar via Sinkiang. He was accompanied on this journey by Ella Maillart (Kini).
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 .
Facing his own mortality and the prospect of his family's destitution after his death, Grant approached Century with a proposal to publish his personal memoirs, serially and then in bound volumes. Century agreed to publish the work and drew up a contract in which the dying man would receive 10% of every sale of the book. [9] [10] [11]
Chapter 10 appeared in the January 18, 1907 issue of the North American Review. [10] This chapter discusses Orion Clemens (born July 17, 1825 in Jamestown, Tennessee), who was Twain's eldest brother, antedating him by ten years. After a series of moves, he and his family found themselves living in Hannibal, Missouri, when he was twelve years ...
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