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Roughing It

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4 out of 5
Based on 142 Ratings and 142 Reviews

Book Description
Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric... More
Book Information
PublisherUniversity of California Press
BindingKindle Edition (73 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages613
ISBN-10B005PZSKDO
Publication Date01/15/2011
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About Edgar Marquess Branch (Author, Editor) : Edgar Marquess Branch is a published editor of children's books. Published credits of Edgar Marquess Branch include Roughing It (Mark Twain Library) and Roughing It: The Works of Mark Twain.
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About Harriet E. Smith (Author, Editor) : Harriet E. Smith is a published editor. Published credits of Harriet E. Smith include Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library).
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About Lin Salamo (Author, Editor) : Lin Salamo is a published editor. A published credit of Lin Salamo is The Prince and the Pauper (Works of Mark Twain).
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About Mark Twain (Author) : Mark Twain was a published author, creator, editor, illustrator, series editor, and a translator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Mark Twain include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ... more
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About Robert Pack Browning (Author, Editor) : Robert Pack Browning is a published editor of children's books. Published credits of Robert Pack Browning include Roughing It (Mark Twain Library) and Roughing It: The Works of Mark Twain.
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10/4/2007 Cindy Lovell said: One of Twain's best kept secrets... the wild west, the Pony Express, the gunfights and bad guys and crooked politicians... oh, yes, and the gold and silver mining. Sheer adventure and laughing out loud on every page.
tags: One of Twain's best

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