A Tramp Abroad

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This Paperback Book item from Echo Library was reviewed on 26-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book A Tramp Abroad by Echo Library. I listened to the audio version of both books, and will admit up front that the narrator for this one is not one of my favorites, but I got past that after a while.
Twain seemed to be "padding" the narrative with an awful lot of folktales and legend, rather than his own experience. There´s a lengthy (and highly annoying) "fantasy" sequence - I suppose he was trying for parody - as well. I found myself fast-forwarding through almost a full cassette of a gory description of two deuls (near the beginning); he delights in recounting grisly mountaineering stories later on during the novel. The storyline ended abruptly at the end of cassette 11 of 13; the last two were the appendix, which I skipped.
I really liked "Innocents" and am planning on purchasing "Following the Equator" (I looked through it at a bookstore and it seemed pretty interesting), but I wish I´d skipped this one. Three stars for the humor when he actually describes his own experiences.¤

2) Paperback Book A Tramp Abroad by Echo Library. This is a single book, not the whole set and the book is in less then usable quality. The seller was to send return address materials and has not as of 12/19.¤

3) Paperback Book A Tramp Abroad by Echo Library. It´s fascinating to compare my own experiences, having lived now 3 years in Germany, to those of an American from 125 years earlier. I´ve been learning to speak German, and his Appendix on the "awful" German language was hilarious. In poking fun at German grammar (e.g., long sentences), he purposely commits the same errors in his own writing. The scene "riding" the glacier down the Alps was so funny I had tears running down my face. It´s amazing to think that it was written in 1879, when America was barely a century old, and the insights and perceptions then can be incredibly, eerily similar to either my or "typical" American´s attitudes today.

I´d recommend it to anyone, but particularly to anyone visiting or living in Europe. It´s way funnier than his "Innocents Abroad", which is also a good read on travel in Europe.¤

4) Paperback Book A Tramp Abroad by Echo Library. A Tramp Abroad is the third and least successful of the travel books written by the pen of Mark Twain.
In this book we follow Twain as he tours Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland. I found the early chapters chronicling his visit to Heidelburg University; hilarious visits to opera houses and tale tales such as the Blue Jay yarn to be well done.
The longest section of the book deals with Twain´s alpine climbing adventures in Switzerland. This material is interesting but goes on a bit too long for the modern reader.
This is a fine book and deserves to be read and enjoyed by a wider readership that better known but lesser Twain novels and
travel writing,
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys listening to a great author recount his peregrinations through Europe in a leisurely and informative manner.¤

5) Paperback Book A Tramp Abroad by Echo Library. A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain´s tongue-in-cheek, semi-fictionalized account of his second European trek, is, despite it´s 600+ pages, a lightning quick read. Twain´s singular wit is on full display engaging the reader to such an extent that pages swiftly fly by. Though not his best piece of travel writing (see Innocents Abroad), I devoured this book in large chunks eager to see where Twain wandered next. When he arrives in the Alps, A Tramp Abroad vaults from an amusing piece of travel writing to a supremely satisfying form of entertainment.

If there was any disappointment it occured with Twain´s unexpected exit from the stage. A Tramp Abroad covers Twain´s travels in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, but concludes quite suddenly with mere mention that the Netherlands are next on the docket. Yet, wishing a book to continue confers no blackmark on an author. It is further confirmation that A Tramp Abroad easily merits 5 stars.¤

6) Paperback Book A Tramp Abroad by Echo Library. An unconventional and entertaining account of travels through German, the Alps and Italy¤

7) Paperback Book A Tramp Abroad by Echo Library. Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he´s become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain´s books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy´s holiday book" (Twain´s own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you´ve got the book bargain of the millennium.¤

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