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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In previous books- Around the World in 80 days, for instance- I have enjoyed the humorous slights poked at the earlier settlers of Utah. However, being a "Mormon," I was slightly taken aback by Twain's seeming malicious attack at them. Especially his "factual" account in an appendix in the back of the earlier history. That being said It's a bit too long- even for me. But it was quite funny. And I enjoyed most of it. Just not the SLC part.
Mark Twain helped to devise the personal style of American travel writing. Dry guidebook facts were not for him. He could not help turning everything he saw into literature when he trained his keen eye on foreign people and places. No matter what unusual customs he saw or monuments he climbed, he remained Mark Twain - a wised-up observer disguised as a wide-eyed innocent. Belongs to Publisher SeriesAirmont Classics (CL134) Biblioteca Adelphi (269) — 13 more Is contained inIs abridged inAwardsNotable Lists
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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)818.403Literature English (North America) Authors, American and American miscellany Later 19th Century 1861-1900 Diaries, journals, notebooks, reminiscencesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Penguin AustraliaAn edition of this book was published by Penguin Australia. University of California PressAn edition of this book was published by University of California Press. Skyhorse PublishingAn edition of this book was published by Skyhorse Publishing. Tantor MediaAn edition of this book was published by Tantor Media. Recorded BooksAn edition of this book was published by Recorded Books. |
This is a memoir of Twains travels into the west with his brother, as you would expect it is quite entertaining, often found myself smiling and even laughing. Highly recommended.
FROM AUDIOBOOKS.COM: Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 1870-71 and published in 1872 as a sequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad.(Wikipedia) ( )