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Europe and Elsewhere
The work reflects Twain's observations and experiences from his travels throughout Europe and addresses various themes including culture, politics, and social issues.
"Europe and Elsewhere" by Mark Twain is a collection of travel essays and commentaries. The work reflects Twain's observations and experiences from his travels throughout Europe and addresses various themes including culture, politics, and social issues.
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(This “Biographical Criticism” was prepared by Prof. Brander Matthews, as an introduction to the Uniform Edition of Mark Twain’s Works, published in 1899).
It is a common delusion of those who discuss contemporary literature that there is such an entity as the “reading public,” possessed of a certain uniformity of taste. There is not one public; there are many publics--as many, in fact, as there are different kinds of taste; and the extent of an author’s popularity is in proportion to the number of these separate publics he may chance to please. Scott, for example, appealed not only to those who relished romance and enjoyed excitement, but also to those who appreciated his honest portrayal of sturdy characters. Thackeray is preferred by ambitious youth who are insidiously flattered by his tacit compliments to their knowledge of the world, by the disenchanted who cannot help seeing the petty meannesses of society, and by the less sophisticated in whom sentiment has not gone to seed in sentimentality. Dickens in his own day bid for the approval of those who liked broad caricature (and were therefore pleased with Stiggins and Chadband), of those who fed greedily on plentiful pathos (and were therefore delighted with the deathbeds of Smike and Paul Dombey and viiiLittle Nell) and also of those who asked for unexpected adventure (and were therefore glad to disentangle the melodramatic intrigues of Ralph Nickleby).
Contents
- 01Europe and Elsewhere
- 02Contents
- 03An Appreciation
- 04I
- 05II
- 06III
- 07IV
- 08V
- 09Introduction
- 10A Memorable Midnight Experience (1872)
- 11Two Mark Twain Editorials
- 12I “Salutatory”
- 13II a Tribute to Anson Burlingame
- 14The Temperance Crusade and Woman’s Rights (1873)
- 15O’shah
- 16I the Arrival in England
- 17II Mark Twain Executes His Contract and Delivers the Shah in London
- 18III the Shah as a Social Star
- 19IV Mark Twain Hooks the Persian Out of the English Channel
- 20V Mark Twain Gives the Royal Persian a “Send-Off”
- 21A Wonderful Pair of Slippers
- 22Aix, the Paradise of the Rheumatics (Contributed to the New York Sun, 1891)
- 23Down the Rhône (1891)
- 24The Lost Napoleon
- 25Some National Stupidities (1891-1892)
- 26The Cholera Epidemic in Hamburg (1892)
- 27Queen Victoria’s Jubilee (1897)
- 28Letters to Satan (1897)
- 29Swiss Glimpses
- 30A Word of Encouragement for Our
- 31Dueling (Vienna, Austria, 1898)
- 32Skeleton Plan of a Proposed Casting Vote Party (1901)
- 33The United States of Lyncherdom (1901)
- 34To the Person Sitting in Darkness (North American Review, 1901)
- 35To My Missionary Critics (North American Review, 1901)
- 36Thomas Brackett Reed
- 37The Finished Book (On Finishing Joan of Arc)
- 38As Regards Patriotism (About 1900)
- 39Dr. Loeb’s Incredible Discovery
- 40The Dervish and the Offensive Stranger
- 41Voices Out of Utah
- 42Instructions in Art (With Illustrations by the Author)
- 43Sold to Satan (1904)
- 44That Day in Eden (Passage from Satan’s Diary)
- 45Eve Speaks
- 46Samuel Erasmus Moffett August 16, 1908
- 47The New Planet
- 48Marjorie Fleming, the Wonder Child
- 49Adam’s Soliloquy
- 50Bible Teaching and Religious Practice
- 51The War Prayer (Dictated 1904-05)
- 52Corn-Pone Opinions (Written in 1900)
About this edition
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 347 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers