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Europe and elsewhere

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By Mark Twain
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A varied collection of essays and sketches that alternate lively travel writing about European towns, spas, and river journeys with sharp social and political satire. The pieces mix anecdote and observation — reporting health-resort routines, epidemics, and public ceremonies — with ironical assaults on missionary zeal, patriotism, lynching, temperance crusades, and other public follies. Interspersed are imaginative parodies and reflective monologues that combine colloquial humor, moral indignation, and rhetorical flourish to expose hypocrisy and prompt readers to reconsider prevailing beliefs.

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Title: Europe and elsewhere

Author: Mark Twain

Author of introduction, etc.: Albert Bigelow Paine

Contributor: Brander Matthews

Release date: July 24, 2022 [eBook #68604]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1923

Credits: KD Weeks, Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE

AND I ROSE TO RECEIVE MY GUEST, AND BRACED MYSELF FOR THE
THUNDERCRASH AND THE BRIMSTONE STENCH WHICH
SHOULD ANNOUNCE HIS ARRIVAL

(See p. 326)
EUROPE
AND ELSEWHERE
By
MARK TWAIN
WITH AN APPRECIATION BY
BRANDER MATTHEWS
AND AN INTRODUCTION BY
ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE
Copyright, 1923
By The Mark Twain Company
Printed in the U.S.A.
First Edition
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