Innocents Abroad

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This is but the barest outline of Mark Twain''s life, such a brief summary as we must have before us if we wish to consider the conditions under which the author has developed and the stages of his growth. It will serve, however, to ''show how various have been his forms of activity — printer, pilot, miner, journalist, traveler, lecturer, novelist, publisher and to suggest the width of his experience of life.