Eleanor’s Reviews > The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress > Status Update

I'm having a very hard time. Twain is, occasionally, shockingly modern in his humour and it can be so good to have these glimpses of people always being the same. But his racism is extreme, his misogyny plain as the nose on my face, and ableism easily found. Some anecdotes are marvelous and delightful, others make me want to roll my eyes or as dry as figures in an atlas. We shall see....