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A community read for Kansas: Our Boys
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The first funny travelogue? - Innocents Abroad
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For Literature with Lunch -- I enjoyed the book more after I researched "subscription books" and understood that Twain was padding his book contents to make an extra thick book so that people who bought it on subscription would feel like they got their money's worth. I imagine that I would have enjoyed his lecture tours a great deal more than this text -- or an audio version. I kept trying to read this too quickly to get all of the jokes, which are worked into the turn of a phrase -- well, actua
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Hilarious account of Twain's 19th century excursion to parts of Europe, the Mediterranean region and the Holy Land. His purposes for this trip may have been noble, for as he says “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” I'm not sure how charitable he became, with constant remarks like “In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in
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