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01-15-2014, 12:13 AM | #1 |
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Twain, Mark: More Tramps Abroad / Following The Equator (Illustr). v1. 15 Jan 2014
MORE TRAMPS ABROAD (FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR)
by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 – 1910) First published in 1897. The text of this book is in the public domain world-wide, because the author died more than 100 years ago. The illustrations and introductory material are in the public domain in countries where copyright is “Life+70” or less. Mark Twain is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “the Great American Novel.” Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894. His publishing house (Charles L. Webster & Co.) failed. Heavy investments in a “revolutionary” typesetting machine failed to come to fruition. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2.5 million in 2010) he undertook a lecture tour of the British Empire in 1895. His route included Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa. As he concluded the financially successful tour, about to settle down in England to write the book describing his journey, he and his wife received word of the death of their oldest daughter Susy, at age twenty-four. In this, his fifth and final travel book, the author criticizes racism, imperialism and missionary zeal in observations woven into the narrative with classic Twain wit. In keeping with that wit, and Twain's love of a tall tale, he included a number of fictional stories; for example, the story of how the famed colonial financier Cecil Rhodes made his first fortune by finding a newspaper in the belly of a shark, and the story of how a man named Ed Jackson made good in life out of a fake letter of introduction to Cornelius Vanderbilt. —The above adapted/expanded from Wikipedia. This book, while well-furnished with wit and entertainment, lacks the rollicking high humor of his earlier travelogues. Twain’s personal grief, and disappointment in mankind's general behavior, result in a darker tone. One of the Pudd’nhead maxims (used for each chapter head) says: “Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead”; this sentiment is frequently evidenced in his later writings. Read Following the Equator and share in the author’s delight in the exotic oriental ambiance of Ceylon, his keen interest in the splendors and squalors of India, his dismay at the maltreatment of transported convicts and the extermination of aboriginal peoples in the Pacific region. Twain’s bitterly ironic and fatalistic descriptions of the latter events are heart-breaking. Altogether, a very satisfying book. Two excerpts (a tiny taste test, and a longer swig to wet your whistle) Spoiler:
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---------- Editorial notes --- This MobileRead edition is based on the British first edition of More Tramps Abroad, which was more faithful to the author's manuscript, and contains a number of passages (approximately 10,000 words) that were omitted from the American edition. Several passages (ca. 2200 words) from the American first edition have been added. Included are all 188 illustrations from the American first edition; about one-fourth of these are photographs. The Editor’s Appendix presents all the Pudd’nhead Wilson maxims from The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), More Tramps Abroad, and Following the Equator. American spelling and punctuation are used. Text errors were corrected; punctuation, diacritics, and italics formatted; some spelling and punctuation modernized. Scene breaks added. Cross-linked chapter end-notes to source paragraphs; cross-linked chapter titles to html table of contents. Illustrations manually cleaned and resized. Original cover design. “Drop-caps” version illustrations are in a higher resolution, resulting in larger file-size. Both versions have illustrations centered, with no text-wrap. Please report any errors that you find, it would be a kindness. ================================== Many thanks to (in alphabetical order) AlexBell, DaleDe, derangedhermit, GMcG, Jellby, mrmikel, RbnJrg, SBT, and Tex2002ans for their patient guidance and inspiration about image-processing. ================================== This book is one I read many, many years ago, and I had forgotten almost all of it. So I got to enjoy reading a “new” Twain title. I hope you enjoy it too. This work is assumed to be in the Life+70 public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. Copyright laws differ throughout the world, and it may still be under copyright in some countries. Before downloading, please check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work.
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01-15-2014, 12:03 PM | #2 |
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Thanks so much for another Twain beauty!!
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Another nice Twain book, many thanks GrannyGrump.
As a New Zealander I am looking forward to reading Chapter XXVII, after which I shall, at last, know where I am . |
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@doubleshuffle, thanks for downloading, I hope you like it! (Gilded Age next)
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