Roughing It: english version (American Classics) (Mark Twain Classics, #1) (Bibliolife Reproduction)

by Mark Twain

Angel Sanchez (Editor)

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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
  • ISBN10 1535359153
  • ISBN13 9781535359153
  • Publish Date 19 July 2016 (first published 1 January 1920)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 466
  • Language English