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The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

It humorously chronicles Twain's five-month voyage through Europe and the Holy Land aboard the steamship Quaker City in 1867.

"The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain is a travel book. It humorously chronicles Twain's five-month voyage through Europe and the Holy Land aboard the steamship Quaker City in 1867.

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Occasionally, during the following month, I dropped in at 117 Wall Street to inquire how the repairing and refurnishing of the vessel was coming on, how additions to the passenger list were averaging, how many people the committee were decreeing not “select” every day and banishing in sorrow and tribulation. I was glad to know that we were to have a little printing press on board and issue a daily newspaper of our own. I was glad to learn that our piano, our parlor organ, and our melodeon were to be the best instruments of the kind that could be had in the market. I was proud to observe that among our excursionists were three ministers of the gospel, eight doctors, sixteen or eighteen ladies, several military and naval chieftains with sounding titles, an ample crop of “Professors” of various kinds, and a gentleman who had “COMMISSIONER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA” thundering after his name in one awful blast! I had carefully prepared myself to take rather a back seat in that ship because of the uncommonly select material that would alone be permitted to pass through the camel’s eye of that committee on credentials; I had schooled myself to expect an imposing array of military and naval heroes and to have to set that back seat still further back in consequence of it maybe; but I state frankly that I was all unprepared for this crusher.

Contents

  1. 01List of Illustrations
  2. 02Preface
  3. 03Chapter I.
  4. 04Excursion to the Holy Land, Egypt, the Crimea, Greece, and Intermediate Points of Interest. Brooklyn, February 1st, 1867
  5. 05Chapter II.
  6. 06Chapter III.
  7. 07Chapter IV.
  8. 08Chapter V.
  9. 09Chapter VI.
  10. 10Chapter VII.
  11. 11Chapter VIII.
  12. 12Chapter IX.
  13. 13Chapter X.
  14. 14Chapter XI.
  15. 15Chapter XII.
  16. 16Chapter XIII.
  17. 17Chapter XIV.
  18. 18Chapter XV.
  19. 19Story of Abelard and Heloise
  20. 20Chapter XVI.
  21. 21Chapter XVII.
  22. 22Chapter XVIII.
  23. 23Chapter XIX.
  24. 24Chapter XX.
  25. 25Chapter XXI.
  26. 26The Legend.
  27. 27Chapter XXII.
  28. 28Chapter XXIII.
  29. 29Chapter XXIV.
  30. 30Chapter XXV.
  31. 31Chapter XXVI.
  32. 32Chapter XXVII.
  33. 33Chapter XXVIII.
  34. 34Chapter XXIX.
  35. 35Ascent of Vesuvius.
  36. 36Ascent of Vesuvius--Continued.
  37. 37Ascent of Vesuvius--Continued.
  38. 38Ascent of Vesuvius--Continued.
  39. 39Ascent of Mount Vesuvius--Continued.
  40. 40Chapter XXX.
  41. 41Ascent of Vesuvius--Continued.
  42. 42Ascent of Vesuvius--Continued.
  43. 43Ascent of Vesuvius--Continued.
  44. 44Ascent of Vesuvius--Continued.
  45. 45The Descent.
  46. 46Chapter XXXI.
  47. 47The Buried City of Pompeii
  48. 48Chapter XXXII.
  49. 49Chapter XXXIII.
  50. 50Chapter XXXIV.
  51. 51Slave Girl Market Report.
  52. 52Chapter XXXV.
  53. 53Chapter XXXVI.
  54. 54Chapter XXXVII.
  55. 55Chapter XXXVIII.
  56. 56Chapter XXXIX.
  57. 57Notice
  58. 58Chapter XL.
  59. 59The Legend of the Seven Sleepers.
  60. 60Chapter XLI.

About this edition

Author
Mark Twain
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
668 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers