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Roughing it [electronic resource] / Mark Twain.
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- ISBN: 9781455115389 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- ISBN: 145511538X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 46 min.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : 2011.
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| Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Grover Gardner. |
| Summary, etc.: | In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales. Twain reflects on his scuffling years mining silver in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, being down-and-out in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more. This humorous account 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, this text adheres to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Authors, American > Homes and haunts > West (U.S.) |
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