| <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0142437085/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link">在线阅读本书</a><br><br> based on a series of letters mark twain wrote from europe to newspapers in san francisco new york as a roving correspondent, <i>the innocents abroad</i> (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. twain's fresh humorous perspective on hallowed european lmarks lacked reverence for the past-the ancient statues of saints on the cathedral of notre dame are "battered broken-nosed old fellows" tour guides "interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling." equally irreverent about american manners (including his own) as he is about european attitudes, twain ultimately concludes that, for better or worse, "human nature is very much the same all over the world." |
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