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Roughing It
Roughing It
Author: Mark Twain
In his youth Mark Twain drifted through the West. He worked as a civil servant, gold prospector, reporter, lecturer. ROUGHING IT is Twain's record--fact and impression--of those early years. — Twain tried his luck at everything. He disputed with vigilantes; crossed Slade the Terrible, whose equally terrible wife shot not from the hip but from...  more »
ISBN-13: 9783829053891
ISBN-10: 3829053894
Publication Date: 1/2001
Pages: 530
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Publisher: Konemann
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 3
A thoughly enjoyable view of the frontier west, and introduction to an emerging genius of American writing. Twain is well informed, honest, and surprisingly prudish is his role as storyteller, but always intent on keeping his reader interested. Good Read!
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A little to autobiographical for my taste, but still a classic
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This is a chronicle of Twain's journey through the then wild western part of the US and on to Hawaii. The domestic complement to Innocents Abroad
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Mark Twain at his satiric and hilarious best - taking on America's west of the 1860s and the colorful characters he met, and the off-beat adventures he had.


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