And that is how Mark Twain got to Paris. These letters formed the spine of The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim’s Progress, which sold more than 70,000 copies the year it was published. The ...

For a man who liked being called the American, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Biographer Roy Morris, Jr., focuses on the dozen years Twain spent ...

In his 1869 book The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain provocatively claimed, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrowmindedness.” Why did Twain see travel as so transformative? And how might we ...