Author: Mark Twain

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Published: 2020-03-21

Total Pages: 418

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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mix of autobiography and fictional events, by the American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the trip is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transportation as they traverse the continent. The book is the fourth of Mark Twain's six travel books published during his lifetime and is often believed to be an unofficial sequel to the first, The Innocents Abroad. As the two men make their way through Germany, the Alps, and Italy, they encounter situations made even funnier by their reactions to them.The narrator (Twain) plays the role of the American tourist of the time, believing that he understands everything he sees, but in reality he does not understand any of it. The first half of the book covers his stay in southwestern Germany (Heidelberg, Mannheim, a trip on the Neckar River, Baden-Baden and the Black Forest). The second part describes his travels in Switzerland and eastern France (Lucerne, Interlaken, Zermatt, Chamonix and Geneva).