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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2443.The_Innocents_Abroad_or_The_New_Pilgrims_Progress?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress (Modern Library Classics)" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161044880m/2443.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2443.The_Innocents_Abroad_or_The_New_Pilgrims_Progress?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1655.Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19185660?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> This, along with <i>FE</i>, is the subject of the dissertation chapter I'm currently plowing through. Reading travel writing can sometimes be as labor-intensive and exhausting as simply taking the trip, and <i>Innocents</i> is no exception, but Twain's portrait of the original ugly American and his bungling violence is fascinating. This is funny, it's cutting, and it exposes that always-present gap between expectation and reality. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1044552?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>