... followed the techniques of the others. To his pleasure and relief, the lectures went down equally well with New York audiences. Next, he acted as correspondent on a chartered Mediterranean tour. The letters he sent back were made into a book. Innocents Abroad: it was an immediate hit. Twain was not the first American to draw attention to the shortcomings of the Old World, but he was the first to ... as with Huckleberry Finn, by ingenious lying), or the strong man who stands off a mob(no mob', he writes in "The United States of Lyncherdom', has any sand in the presence of a man known to b...

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