An Idle Excursion, and Other Papers


  • Author: Mark Twain
  • Taking his pseudonym from nautical terminology learned during his years as an apprentice river pilot ("mark twain" indicates a depth of two fathoms), Samuel Langhorne Clemens first came to the public's attention when he wrote a humorous travelogue entitled The Innocents Abroad. His best-known works include Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but "Mark Twain" also published a number of delightful short stories - including "Eve's Diary" and "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note." At his peak, he was probably the most popular American celebrity of his time. Fellow American author William Faulkner is credited with writing that Twain was "the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs."

  • ISBN: 9781402148934
  • ISBN: 9781421285474
  • Book details: This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Chatto and Windus in London, 1878. This book is in English. This book contains 301 pages.
  • Edition: Elibron Classics
  • Book ID: 10015500
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