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Mark Twain

Hartford, Connecticut, USAmarktwain.wroteabout.comWriting since 1867

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Pilot, miner, printer, lecturer. Sailed for the Holy Land in 1867 with sixty pilgrims and came home the only sinner. A test profile in the spirit of The Innocents Abroad (1869).

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  1. ITThe Quaker City excursion·Jun 1867

    The tomb of Adam

    In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre I was shown the tomb of Adam, and was overcome. A man ought to be moved at the grave of a relative, even a distant one.

    City2 min read
  2. ITThe Quaker City excursion·Jun 1867

    Is he dead?

    Every guide in Italy loved Michelangelo with a love that bordered on the unreasonable. We found a way to cure them. It is cruel, and I recommend it.

    City2 min read
  3. ITThe Quaker City excursion·Jun 1867

    Venice, without the singing

    A city that has gone on living with its feet in the water for a thousand years. It is beautiful, and damp, and the gondolier sings, and I will forgive it everything but the gondolier.

    City2 min read
  4. FRThe Quaker City excursion·Jun 1867

    The barber of Paris

    All my life I had dreamed of being shaved in a Parisian palace of art, by a gentle artist, among velvet and mirrors. I was shaved by a man named Henri, with a garden tool.

    City2 min read

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  • Bermuda
  • Egypt
  • France
  • Gibraltar
  • Greece
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Lebanon
  • Morocco
  • Palestine
  • Portugal
  • Spain
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  • Türkiye
  • Ukraine
  • United States

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  • ITThe Quaker City excursionJun 1867 · 10 stories · 165 days
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  • Asia1
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