Roughing It (mark Twain Library)
by Mark Twain /
2011 / English / EPUB
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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,
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
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
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 LibraryRoughing
It
Roughing
It must be considered the standard edition for readers and
students of Mark Twain.
must be considered the standard edition for readers and
students of Mark Twain.