Roughing It: Large Print (American Classics) (Mark Twain Classics, #1) (Bibliolife Reproduction)

by Mark Twain

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A marvelously vivid, many-sided portrait of America's frontier days.
 
Mark Twain's rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860's. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timber and mining stocks, sailed to Hawaii, and worked for a succession of small newspapers. In Roughing It, his fictionalized account of these years, tall tales abound, as do sketches of unforgettable characters: desperadoes, vigilantes, newspapermen, Mormons, and prospectors.

Twain's Debt to the burlesque styling of regional humorists and his celebrated gift for accurately rendering regional speech are never more in evidence than here, but as Hamlin...Read more
  • ISBN13 9798643750413
  • Publish Date 9 June 2020 (first published 1 January 1920)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Independently Published
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 512
  • Language English