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Roughing It - (Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain (Paperback)
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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: Harriet Elinor Smith, Lin Salamo, and Robert Pack Browning are associate editors with the Mark Twain Project.
- 888 Pages
- Literary Criticism, American
- Series Name: Mark Twain Library
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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 humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain.About the Author
Harriet Elinor Smith, Lin Salamo, and Robert Pack Browning are associate editors with the Mark Twain Project. Edgar Marquess Branch is Emeritus Professor of English at Miami University.Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x 2.2 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.4 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 888
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: American
Series Title: Mark Twain Library
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Mark Twain
Language: English
Street Date: February 14, 2011
TCIN: 82929161
UPC: 9780520268173
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-0242
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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