![]() ![]() But at this point in his career Twain doesn't need much in the way of incident to fill a book. The Innocents Abroad was the account of a preplanned package tour in A Tramp Abroad, Twain has to set his own agenda, and spends almost the entirety of the 600 pages in southern Germany and Switzerland. Twain decided he'd best go back to what had worked in the past - and disappear from Connecticut for a bit so his neighbors wouldn't find out about his financial straits - and relocate the family to Europe for a while while he cranked out a new travelogue,Ī Tramp Abroad. His latest offering, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, had been a particularly disappointing failure sales-wise. First edition, later issue.īy 1878, Mark Twain had been living the life of a world-famous author for quite a while despite the fact that, after the hugely successful travelogue The Innocents Abroad, each new book of his had sold worse than the last. ![]() 314 illustrations by W F Brown, True Williams, B Day and Mark Twain. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1880. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering and black embossed decoration, back cover has black embossed "CW" decoration. ![]() Author: Mark Twain (PSUED Samuel Langhorne Clemens) ![]()
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