Finding a book that doesn’t exist

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 Chapter 56, he again quotes a passage from the book, introducing it as:

A writer in “Life in the Holy Land” observes:

So who is C.W.E. and what book is Life in the Holy Land?

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