eBook Roughing It: The Works of Mark Twain ePub

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 humor made pretension and false dignity ridiculous. Edgar Marquess Branch is Emeritus Professor of English at Miami University.

Amazing adventures of Mark Twain as a very young man in the Old West - mostly Nevada and California - plus Hawaii.

Edgar Marquess Branch is Emeritus Professor of English at Miami University. Amazing adventures of Mark Twain as a very young man in the Old West - mostly Nevada and California - plus Hawaii. Very interesting to read descriptions from 150 years ago of places I know today.

Based on Mark Twain's own years of variegated vagabonding in the West, this comic narrative offers a virtual .

Based on Mark Twain's own years of variegated vagabonding in the West, this comic narrative offers a virtual grab-bag of tall tales, folklore, beast fables, travelogue, local color, autobiography, history, geography-even statistics.

By Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith, Lin Salamo, Robert Pack Browning, Edgar Marquess Branch. 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 humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous.

Roughing It - Mark Twain. The Works and Papers of Mark Twain

Roughing It - Mark Twain. IT. The mark twain library. p. c. (The Mark Twain library). A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 978-0-520-26817-3 (pb. alk. paper). The Works and Papers of Mark Twain.

Roughing it. - Life on the Mississippi. The man that corrupted Hadleybrug. Mark Twain's notebook. Mark Twain's speeches.

The adventures of Tom Sawyer. The innocents abroad. The American claimant. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court. Roughing it. The mysterious stranger. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn The man that corrupted Hadleybrug. In defense of Harriet Shelley. Joan of Arc. - The 30,000 bequest Mark Twain's notebook.

Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith, Edgar Marquess Branch

Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith, Edgar Marquess Branch. Based on Mark Twain's own years of 'variegated vagabonding' in the West, this comic narrative offers a virtual grab-bag of tall tales, folklore, beast fables, travelogue, local color, autobiography, history, geography - even statistics.

Mark Twain, Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. .Mark Twain's Book of Animals (Jumping Frogs). Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, and Barry Moser

Mark Twain, Harriet E. Goetz, and Leslie Diane Myrick. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories (Mark Twain Library). Mark Twain and Walter Blair. The Autobiography of Mark Twain: Deluxe Modern Classic. Charles Neider and Mark Twain. Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, and Barry Moser. The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain.

Roughing It (Hardcover). Published August 1st 2017 by Gibbs Smith. Mark Twain - Roughing It (Paperback). Published December 14th 2016 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Paperback, 166 pages.

ISBN: 0520238923 (ISBN13: 9780520238923). Roughing It (Hardcover). Hardcover, 424 pages.

A publication of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library. Like most of Mark Twain’s best work, Roughing It is largely autobiographical, as its preface explains: This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing. Still, there is information in the volume; information concerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person.