A Tramp Abroad

by Mark Twain

Converted to HTML by
Alan Eliasen for the
Mark Twain Library

Comments and questions to eliasen@mindspring.com

A Tramp Abroad is available in two formats: the entire book in one large file, or chapter-by-chapter.

A Tramp Abroad

The entire book in one file. [870 KB] This is simpler to search (or print!)

Chapter-by-Chapter

Chapter I. The Knighted Knave of Bergen
Chapter II. Heidelberg
Chapter III. Baker's Bluejay Yarn
Chapter IV. Student Life
Chapter V. At the Students' Dueling-Ground
Chapter VI. A Sport That Sometimes Kills
Chapter VII. How Bismark Fought
Chapter VIII. The Great French Duel
Chapter IX. What the Beautiful Maiden Said
Chapter X. How Wagner Operas Bang Along
Chapter XI. I Paint a "Turner"
Chapter XII. What the Wives Saved
Chapter XIII. My Long Crawl in the Dark
Chapter XIV. Rafting Down the Neckar
Chapter XV. Down the River
Chapter XVI. An Ancient Legend of the Rhine
Chapter XVII. Why Germans Wear Spectacles
Chapter XVIII. The Kindly Courtesy of Germans
Chapter XIX. The Deadly Jest of Dilsberg
Chapter XX. My Precious, Priceless Tear-Jug
Chapter XXI. Insolent Shopkeepers and Gabbling Americans
Chapter XXII. The Black Forest and Its Treasures
Chapter XXIII. Nicodemus Dodge and the Skeleton
Chapter XXIV. I Protect the Empress of Germany
Chapter XXV. Hunted by the Little Chamois
Chapter XXVI. The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock
Chapter XXVII. I Spare an Awful Bore
Chapter XXVIII. The Jodel and Its Native Wilds
Chapter XXIX. Looking West for Sunrise
Chapter XXXI. Alp-Scaling by Carriage
Chapter XXXII. The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano
Chapter XXXIII. We Climb Far--by Buggy
Chapter XXXIV. The World's Highest Pig Farm
Chapter XXXV. Swindling the Coroner
Chapter XXXVI. The Fiendish Fun of Alp-climbing
Chapter XXXVII. Our Imposing Column Starts Upward
Chapter XXXVIII. I Conquer the Gorner Grat
Chapter XXXIX. We Travel by Glacier
Chapter XL. Piteous Relics at Chamonix
Chapter XLI. The Fearful Disaster of 1865
Chapter XLII. Chillon has a Nice, Roomy Dungeon
Chapter XLIII. My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed
Chapter XLIV. I Scale Mont Blanc--by Telescope
Chapter XLV. A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives
Chapter XLVI. Meeting a Hog on a Precipice
Chapter XLVII. Queer European Manners
Chapter XLVIII. Beauty of Women--and of Old Masters
Chapter XLIX: Hanged with a Golden Rope
Chapter L. Titian Bad and Titian Good
Appendix A. The Portier
Appendix B. Heidelberg Castle
Appendix C. The College Prison
Appendix D. The Awful German Language
Appendix E. Legend of the Castles
Appendix F. German Journals

Comments, questions or corrections?

Back to Alan Eliasen's Mark Twain Library