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The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain. Part II. Jun 16, 2023

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Published in 1869, The Innocents Abroad humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. The five-month journey included numerous side trips on land.

The book, which sometimes appears with the subtitle The New Pilgrim's Progress, became the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime, as well as one of the best-selling travel books of all time.

The excursion was billed as a Holy Land expedition, with numerous stops and side trips along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, notably:

train excursion from Marseille to Paris for the 1867 Paris Exhibition during the reign of Napoleon III and the Second French Empire
journey through the Papal States to Rome
side trip through the Black Sea to Odessa
culminating excursion through the Holy Land

Twain reports the voyage covered over 20,000 miles of land and sea.

The book is full of Twain’s cutting wit and insight as he guides us along the bumpy and often dangerous journey.

No need to buckle up. Just take it slow, and steady…like the journey itself. (From Wikipedia.)

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The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain. Part I. Jun 16, 2023

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The excursion was billed as a Holy Land expedition, with numerous stops and side trips along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, notably:

train excursion from Marseille to Paris for the 1867 Paris Exhibition during the reign of Napoleon III and the Second French Empire
journey through the Papal States to Rome
side trip through the Black Sea to Odessa
culminating excursion through the Holy Land

Twain reports the voyage covered over 20,000 miles of land and sea.

The book is full of Twain’s cutting wit and insight as he guides us along the bumpy and often dangerous journey.

No need to buckle up. Just take it slow, and steady…like the journey itself. (From Wikipedia.)

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His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part VII. Jun 14, 2023

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His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917).

The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes. All editions contain a brief preface, by "John H. Watson, M.D.", that assures readers that as of the date of publication (1917), Holmes is long retired from his profession of detective but is still alive and well, albeit suffering from a touch of rheumatism.

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His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part VI. Jun 14, 2023

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His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part V. Jun 14, 2023

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His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part IV. Jun 14, 2023

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His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part III. Jun 14, 2023

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His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part II. Jun 14, 2023

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His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part I. Jun 14, 2023

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Villette, by Charlotte Brontë. Part VIII. Jun 12, 2023

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A quiet, self-reliant, intelligent, 23-year-old woman, Lucy has, as Miss Ginevra Fanshawe asserts, "no attractive accomplishments – no beauty." She seems to have no living relatives. Though usually reserved and emotionally self-controlled, Lucy has strong feelings and affections for those whom she really values. She even sincerely cares for the giddy Ginevra, albeit in a blunt, curmudgeonly fashion.

She is a firm Protestant and denounces Roman Catholicism as false ("God is not with Rome"). The novel is initially set in the English countryside, and later follows Lucy Snowe to the fictional Belgian town of Villette, a Gothic town where the majority of the action takes place. Villette is modelled upon the city of Brussels and is set in the fictional kingdom of Labassecour (modelled on Belgium). "Labassecour" is the French word for farmyard. (From Wikipedia.)

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