Roughing It

Roughing It

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-07

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 048612259X

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The humorist reflects on his scuffling years — silver mining in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, down and out in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more.


Roughing It

Roughing It

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 886

ISBN-13: 0520268172

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Mark Twain's 'imaginative interpretation' of his experience as a prospector, miner, journalist in the West in Nevada, California, and the Sandwich Islands, and finally as a lecturer in 1866. It was in the West that Twain found and eventually accepted his vocation as a humorist and teller of tall tales.


The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-05-04

Total Pages: 686

ISBN-13: 3846051764

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.


Roughing It

Roughing It

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-02-10

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781543028355

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Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861-1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel. Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, and his beginnings as a writer. In this memoir, readers can see examples of Twain's rough-hewn humor, which would become a staple of his writing in his later books, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.