n New York City, and in the same year Twain took a voyage to Europe and the Holy Land aboard the steamship Quaker City. His travel letters to the San Francisco Alta California and the New York Tribune were collected in a popular book,The Innocents Abroad (1869). In the book, Twain made fun of the sights and manners of the countries he visited, and America tourist traveling abroad. Theodre Dreiser wrote, “For most certainly in addition to, and in spite of, his humorous bent, he was a realist at heart and a most extraordinary one. One need only thumb through the Innocents Abroad, to find page after page, character after character, scene after scene, drawn movingly as well as brilliantly enough and this, in spite of his Brobdignaggian humor, from the life about him.”#As you go through the pages of The Innocents Abroad you learn more of the world as the writer saw it, than if you had travel there yourself. In 1870 Clemens married Oliva Langdon. After living briefly in Buffalo, New York, the couple moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Twains best work was written there. Roughing It was written in 1872. It tells about his early adventures as a miner and journalist. While the new book did not do as well as Innocents, the critics agree it is a better book His writing was more fluid, more incisive. Brander Matthews wrote, “Roughing It always seemed to me a.better book than the more widely circulated travels. It is better because it is the result of a more intimate knowledge at the material.“4 In Roughing It Twain was working with what he had lived through. Twain faced honestly the truth about the violence of the frontier. He made his book into more than just another account of Western travel. He showed how the traveler entering this strange region was made into a different person. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) represents Twains first major use of memories of his...
