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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 …
Quint Books is happy to announce the launch of our new book, a new edition of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad. The book has over 1200 footnotes, intended on making the book more accessible to new generations of …
On the journey across the Atlantic Ocean, at the end of the Quaker City’s five month journey with Mark Twain, the ship stopped in Bermuda for a few days. While there, the excursionists published a list of passengers, …
In Chapter 45 of The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain writes about traveling from Damascus to Kafr Hawr (which he calls Jonesborough), and then continuing on the following day to Banias. Twain wrote: “We left Jonesborough …
Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad described the five month journey of dozens of passengers on the Quaker City ship traveling from New York to Europe and the Middle East. While cruising across the Atlantic Ocean out of …
Mark Twain uses a fictional character in The Innocents Abroad to help him tell representative stories based on different passengers on the Quaker City. In his original Alta letters, he used a character named Mr. Brown. …
Who traveled with Mark Twain on the Quaker City? While some of his fellow passengers became well-known through their association with Twain, or through their own self-promotion after the cruise, the list of who traveled …
In other posts we’ve provided links to the letters written to newspapers during the Quaker City voyage by Mark Twain and Moses S. Beach. Another passenger, who wrote 14 letters to her hometown newspaper, the Janesville …
As mentioned in other posts, Mark Twain was not the only correspondent writing articles from the Quaker City (see Twain’s articles here). While Twain’s 50+ letters to the Daily Alta California formed the foundation of …
One of the famous stories Mark Twain writes about in The Innocents Abroad is the meeting of Twain and his fellow excursionists with Czar Alexander II. Is it possible that Twain, who wrote about the event in newspaper …
Mark Twain’s book The Innocents Abroad was based on his trip on the Quaker City side-paddle steamship. Twain’s ticket was paid for by the Daily Alta California newspaper in San Francisco, which paid the $1250 ticket …
While Mark Twain’s book The Innocents Abroad is the most famous record of the tourist cruise in 1867 on the Quaker City paddle steamer, it wasn’t the only one. Many passengers on the ship, like Twain, corresponded with …
Mark Twain, in The Innocents Abroad, refers to a book twice in the text. In Chapter 48, he quotes from book saying: “C.W.E.,” (of “Life in the Holy Land”), deposes as follows: and then quotes a passage from the book. In …
Mark Twain’s story of the Wandering Jew in Chapter 54 of the The Innocents Abroad says their guide pointed out a mark left on a wall by the Wandering Jew, which read: S T.—1860—X. It isn’t dwelt on in the book, probably …
When Mark Twain was traveling on the Quaker City, the ship stopped twice in Constantinople (now the city of Istanbul) in Turkey. In Chapter 34 of The Innocents Abroad, Twain mentions the local English-language paper …
We’re going to dive into the deep end on the first post here, and explain some of what we do differently here at Quint. Our first book being prepared is Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, which was published in 1869. It …