A tramp abroad. Chapter XIX, The legend of Dilsberg Castle : original autograph manuscript / Mark Twain. [1879-1880]

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A tramp abroad. Chapter XIX, The legend of Dilsberg Castle : original autograph manuscript / Mark Twain. [1879-1880]

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Original manuscript of chapter 19 of A tramp abroad, Samuel L. Clemens's (Mark Twain's) account of his sojourn of nearly a year and a half in Europe, written in the form of a burlesque walking tour. In this text, the author visits the tourist attractions of Dilsberg, Germany, and recounts the legend of the castle there. With numerous revisions, deletions, and marginal notes. Paginated 845-893, corrected to 593-641, by Clemens and the chapter number has been changed from "30" to "18" to "19" by him. Includes printed title page, printed page with text "Pages from the original edition," followed by p. 171-183 of same, and a portrait of the author signed "Elson, Boston" and dated 1899, as a frontispiece.

[49] leaves : 1 port. ; 21 cm.

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

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