The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress was published by American author Mark Twain in 1869. The travel literature chronicles Twain's pleasure cruise on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of religious pilgrims. It was the best selling of Twain's works during his lifetime.
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This should be read and re-read as a masterclass in dry, pawky humour, always fresh, surprisingly modern and displaying total fluency in ironic comment and the 'running gag'. A wonderful, all-time classic.