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Roughing It - (Penguin American Library) by Mark Twain (Paperback)
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Highlights
- A marvelously vivid, many-sided portrait of America's frontier days.
- About the Author: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer.
- 592 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures
- Series Name: Penguin American Library
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About the Book
In his youth Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West, working in a variety of professions. This is a record, fact and impression, of those early years.Book Synopsis
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 Hill points out in his introduction, Roughing It must also be read as Twain's renunciation of his footloose bachelorhood, his rejection of the mythic, romanticized image of the West, and his autopsy of the American dream. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.About the Author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer. Twain's greatest contribution to American literature is generally considered to be his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Dimensions (Overall): 7.76 Inches (H) x 5.14 Inches (W) x 1.14 Inches (D)
Weight: .9 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 592
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Series Title: Penguin American Library
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Author: Mark Twain
Language: English
Street Date: December 17, 1981
TCIN: 84800225
UPC: 9780140390100
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-1214
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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