I've been doing some research on Twain's visit to the Azores. He stopped in Horta on his way to Palestine-a series of correspondences that would become his book, Innocents Abroad.
Most of what he wrote about the Azores in that book was not kind, he was trying to create jokes-and also created a cynical sense of the superiority of the American traveler. He made himself the joke of an ugly American-especially viewed from the perspective of today.
In the Book about the Dabneys, there is evidence that he was in their house. Below is a quote from one of the female residents.
Most of what he wrote about the Azores in that book was not kind, he was trying to create jokes-and also created a cynical sense of the superiority of the American traveler. He made himself the joke of an ugly American-especially viewed from the perspective of today.
In the Book about the Dabneys, there is evidence that he was in their house. Below is a quote from one of the female residents.
“At 10 the parlor was quite full….One young man had his note-book out all the time and remarked as I gave him some verbena,’I am taking notes as I am a correspondent of a paper’.
‘Horrors;, writes CPD, “how we may appear in print,’
