The quintessential annotated edition.
A new annotated edition of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad, with over 1,200 footnotes, eight appendixes, a lexicon, and an index. All 235 illustrations from the 1869 first edition are reproduced, along with all of the original page headers.
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Reading through Trauring's The Innocents Abroad is the equivalent of rediscovering Mark Twain guiding his contemporary readers through the 19th century pleasure excursion trip while Philip Trauring is whispering hints in the reader's ear of what was really happening and how these same places and countries and cities look today.
— Barbara Schmidt, Mark Twain Forum
…the best and most fun edition of The Innocents Abroad to read since the first edition.
— Kevin Mac Donnell, Mark Twain scholar
Twain's fascinating journey finds a new level of accessibility in this volume. A thoroughly well-organized rendition of this classic, snarky work.
— Kirkus Reviews
Our edition of The Innocents Abroad is a very special edition, and we wanted to share some of what sets it apart from others. In our Introduction, we discussed things like the 1200 footnotes, hundreds of definitions, and 8 appendixes, but there is more that makes this edition …