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Coles A Tramp Abroad: Restored Classics to Go Edition at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Mark Twain turns a French political quarrel into a mock-heroic duel of honor, bureaucracy, and sheer absurdity. As second to Gambetta, he rushes through will-making, last words, weapon negotiations, surgeons, undertakers, journalists, and a fog so dense the combatants can barely see each other, only to watch the "life-or-death" encounter end in comic anticlimax and patriotic embraces. From there, the narrative shifts to Twain's wry travels through German theater life, where he contrasts disciplined audiences and ingenious stagecraft with the noisy, impatient habits of Americans. He skewers Wagnerian opera as an ordeal one must be trained to endure, yet also finds genuine warmth in German enthusiasm, affectionate speech, and the rituals of performance—from lowered house lights to strict rules for late arrivals. Along the way, he offers memorable comic scenes, including a shy girl who confesses she has "five hundred fleas" and a poet-king of Bavaria who orders an opera replayed for him alone and demands a real storm onstage. The result is a sharp, affectionate satire of politics, art, taste, and public spectacle. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
Mark Twain turns a French political quarrel into a mock-heroic duel of honor, bureaucracy, and sheer absurdity. As second to Gambetta, he rushes through will-making, last words, weapon negotiations, surgeons, undertakers, journalists, and a fog so dense the combatants can barely see each other, only to watch the "life-or-death" encounter end in comic anticlimax and patriotic embraces. From there, the narrative shifts to Twain's wry travels through German theater life, where he contrasts disciplined audiences and ingenious stagecraft with the noisy, impatient habits of Americans. He skewers Wagnerian opera as an ordeal one must be trained to endure, yet also finds genuine warmth in German enthusiasm, affectionate speech, and the rituals of performance—from lowered house lights to strict rules for late arrivals. Along the way, he offers memorable comic scenes, including a shy girl who confesses she has "five hundred fleas" and a poet-king of Bavaria who orders an opera replayed for him alone and demands a real storm onstage. The result is a sharp, affectionate satire of politics, art, taste, and public spectacle. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
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