A Tramp Abroad

About this eBook

Author

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Credits

Produced by David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Walking -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

119

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/119

Release Date

June 19, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.A TRAMP ABROAD BY MARK TWAIN — A TRAMP ABROAD, Part 1
3. 3.By Mark Twain — (Samuel L. Clemens) — First published in 1880 — Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS:
5. 5.CONTENTS — APPENDIX
6. 6.CHAPTER I — [The Knighted Knave of Bergen] — “THE KNAVE OF BERGEN”
7. 7.CHAPTER II — Heidelberg — [Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg]
8. 8.CHAPTER III — Baker’s Bluejay Yarn — [What Stumped the Blue Jays]
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — Student Life — [The Laborious Beer King]
10. 10.CHAPTER V — At the Students’ Dueling-Ground — [Dueling by Wholesale]
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — [A Sport that Sometimes Kills]
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — [How Bismark Fought]
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — The Great French Duel — [I Second Gambetta in a Terrific Duel]
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — [What the Beautiful Maiden Said]
15. 15.CHAPTER X — [How Wagner Operas Bang Along]
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — [I Paint a “Turner”]
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — [What the Wives Saved]
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — [My Long Crawl in the Dark]
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV — [Rafting Down the Neckar]
20. 20.CHAPTER XV — [Charming Waterside Pictures] — THE CAVE OF THE SPECTER
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — An Ancient Legend of the Rhine [The Lorelei] — THE LEGEND — THE LORELEI — THE LORELEI
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — [Why Germans Wear Spectacles] — LEGEND OF THE “SPECTACULAR RUIN”
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII — [The Kindly Courtesy of Germans]
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX — [The Deadly Jest of Dilsberg] — THE LEGEND OF DILSBERG CASTLE
25. 25.CHAPTER XX — [My Precious, Priceless Tear-Jug]
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI — [Insolent Shopkeepers and Gabbling Americans]
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII — [The Black Forest and Its Treasures] — SKELETON FOR A BLACK FOREST NOVEL
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII — [Nicodemus Dodge and the Skeleton]
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV — [I Protect the Empress of Germany]
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV — [Hunted by the Little Chamois]
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI — [The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock]
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII — [I Spare an Awful Bore]
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII — [The Jodel and Its Native Wilds]
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX — [Looking West for Sunrise]
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX — [Harris Climbs Mountains for Me]
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI — [Alp-scaling by Carriage]
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII — [The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano]
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII — [We Climb Far—by Buggy]
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV — [The World’s Highest Pig Farm]
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV — [Swindling the Coroner]
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI — [The Fiendish Fun of Alp-climbing]
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII — [Our Imposing Column Starts Upward]
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII — [I Conquer the Gorner Grat]
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX — [We Travel by Glacier]
45. 45.CHAPTER XL — [Piteous Relics at Chamonix]
46. 46.CHAPTER XLI — [The Fearful Disaster of 1865] — MR. WHYMPER’S NARRATIVE
47. 47.CHAPTER XLII — [Chillon has a Nice, Roomy Dungeon]
48. 48.CHAPTER XLIII — [My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed]
49. 49.CHAPTER XLIX — [I Scale Mont Blanc—by Telescope]
50. 50.CHAPTER XLV — A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives
51. 51.CHAPTER XLVI — [Meeting a Hog on a Precipice]
52. 52.CHAPTER XLVII — [Queer European Manners]
53. 53.CHAPTER XLVIII — [Beauty of Women—and of Old Masters]
54. 54.CHAPTER XLIX — [Hanged with a Golden Rope] — RECIPE FOR AN ASH-CAKE — RECIPE FOR NEW ENGLISH PIE — RECIPE FOR GERMAN COFFEE — TO CARVE FOWLS IN THE GERMAN FASHION
55. 55.CHAPTER L — [Titian Bad and Titian Good]
56. 56.APPENDIX
57. 57.APPENDIX A. — The Portier
58. 58.APPENDIX B. — Heidelberg Castle
59. 59.APPENDIX C. — The College Prison
60. 60.APPENDIX D. — The Awful German Language
61. 61.APPENDIX E. — LEGEND OF THE CASTLES
62. 62.APPENDIX F. — GERMAN JOURNALS

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