Mark Twain in Berlin Newly Discovered Stories & An Account of Twain's Berlin Adventures

<p>In fall 1891 Mark Twain headed for Berlin the newest city I have ever seen as America's foremost humorist wrote; accompanied by his wife Olivia and their three daughters. Twain a Yankee from head to toe according to the Berlin press conspired with diplomats frequented the famed salons had breakfast with duchesses and dined with the emperor. He also suffered an organized dog-choir club at his first address which he deemed a rag-picker's paradise picked a fight with the police who made him look under his maid's petticoats was abused by a porter got lost on streetcars was nearly struck down by pneumonia and witnessed a proletarian uprising right in front of his hotel on Unter den Linden. Twain penned articles about his everyday life and also began a novel about lonely Prussian princess Wilhelmina von Preussen-unpublished until now like many of his Berlin stories. These are assembled for the first time in this book along with a riveting account of Twain's foray in the German capital by Andreas Austilat.</p><p><br></p><p>Berlinica Publishing LLC offers English-language books from Berlin German; fiction non-fiction travel guides history about the Wall and the Third Reich Jewish life art architecture and photography as well as travel guides and cookbook. It also offers documentaries and feature films on DVD as well as music CDs. Berlinica caters to history buffs Americans of German heritage travelers and artists and young people who love the cutting-edge city in the heart of Europe. Berlinica cooperates with Berlin-based publishing houses.</p><p>Berlinica's current and upcoming titles include Our West Berlin by various authors also five translated books by famed Weimar author Kurt Tucholsky as well as Harold Poor's landmark biography of Tucholsky two translated plays by Ernst Toller and two American travel stories by Alfred Kerr and Roda Roda soon to be followed by Egon Erwin Kisch's Paradise America.</p><p>In the non-fiction department we have Rocking the Wall the Bruce-Springsteen-book and Burning Beethoven about German Americans in World War I both by Erik Kirschbaum also Mark Twain in Berlin by Andreas Austilat Berlin 1945: World War II: Photos of the Aftermath by Michael Brettin The Berlin Wall Today a full-color guide to the remnants of the Wall by Michael Cramer Berlin in the Cold War about post-World War II history the comprehensive guide Jews in Berlin by Andreas Nachama Julius Schoeps Hermann Simon and A Place they Called Home edited by Donna Swarthout about Jews returning to Germany.</p><p>We also offer The Berlin Cookbook a full-color collection of traditional German recipes by Rose Marie Donhauser the picture book Wings of Desire by Lothar Heinke Martin Luther's Travel Guide by Cornelia Dömer Leipzig! The City of Books und Music by Sebastian Ringel and Berlin For Free a guide for the frugal traveler by Monica Maertens.</p><p><br></p><p> </p>