From the Publisher:
This edition is printed in specially-designed large type for easier reading, and is printed on non-glare paper.
About the Author:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He 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." When Tom Sawyer Abroad was published in 1894, it marked the first time in a nearly a decade that fans of Mark Twain’s now-classic tales of boyhood got a further glimpse of their heroes in action. Its similarities to Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days and other popular adventure tales of the time—tales which have inspired today’s Steampunk subculture—were entirely intentional. Twain, ever the satirist, could not pass up the opportunity to poke fun at literature’s adventure genre. Twain was also very much aware of the public’s interest in exotic lands, cultures and peoples—stimulated by events such as Sir Richard Burton’s exploration of the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Sir David Livingstone’s travels in Africa, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1871, and his own successful travelogue, The Innocents Abroad (1869), an account of his travels in Europe and the Holy Land.
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