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Roughing it: Mark Twain ; illustrated by True Williams, Edward F. Mullen, and others ; editors, Harriet Elinor Smith and Edgar Marquess Branch ; associate editors, Lin Salamo and Robert Pack Browning by Mark Twain; Harriet Elinor Smith; Edgar Marquess Branch is a travel available to read on EtoBox.
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. Greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous," Roughing It sold 75,000 copies within a year. The book still evokes a vivid portrait of frontier life and character, in part because of its distinctively western humor: the mock trial known as the Great Landslide Case; Buck Fanshaw's funeral; Mark Twain's adventures with the Genuine Mexican Plug; Jim Blaine's rambling story of his grandfather's old rain; Bemis's account of hunting the buffalo; and Dick Baker's story about his sagacious cat, Tom Quartz. 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 expert annotation, specially drawn maps, and other supplementary documents, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It is sure to become the standar
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Mark Twain; Harriet Elinor Smith; Edgar Marquess Branch
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520268173
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction
Other editions & translations
- Roughing It (The Penguin American Library) (2010)
- Roughing It (Mark Twain Library Book 8) (2011)
- Roughing It (Penguin American Library) (1981)
- The Portable Mark Twain (1997)
- Roughing It Mark Twain (2004)
- Roughing It (2013)
- Rustic Modern (2017)
- Roughing It (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) (2012)
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins (1996)
- Roughing It (Volume 8) (Mark Twain Library) (2010)
- Roughing It Mark Twain (2016)
- Roughing It by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) : (Full Image Illustrated) (1872)
- Roughing It (1988)
- Roughing it (1993)
- Roughing it: Mark Twain ; illustrated by True Williams, Edward F. Mullen, and others ; editors, Harriet Elinor Smith and Edgar Marquess Branch ; associate edito (2011)
- Roughing It (2014)
- Roughing It (Mark Twain Library) (1871)
- Mark Twain - Roughing It (2016)
- Roughing It (2015)
- The Portable Mark Twain (2004)
- Roughing It (Volume 8) (Mark Twain Library) (2011)