A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent. The book is often thought to be an unofficial se ...
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This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the (awful) German language. His examples of precisely how the German language is awful include the famed “separable verb” – which allows one to put the first part of a given verb at the beginning – and its second part at the end – of a given clause or sentence (which may, indeed, be ver ...
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02 – Heidelberg [Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg]
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03 – Baker’s Bluejay Yarn [What Stumped the Blue Jays]
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04 – Student Life [The Laborious Beer King]
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05 – At the Students’ Dueling-Ground [Dueling by Wholesale]
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15 – Down the River [Charming Waterside Pictures]
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16 – An Ancient Legend of the Rhine [The Lorelei]
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32 – The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano
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