Roughing It

Roughing It PDF Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543028355
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466

Book Description
Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861-1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel. Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, and his beginnings as a writer. In this memoir, readers can see examples of Twain's rough-hewn humor, which would become a staple of his writing in his later books, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Roughing it in the Suburbs

Roughing it in the Suburbs PDF Author: Valerie J. Korinek
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802080417
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486

Book Description
Korinek shows that rather than promoting domestic perfection, Chatelaine did not cling to the stereotypes of the era, but instead forged ahead, providing women with a variety of images, ideas, and critiques of women's role in society.

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad PDF Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686

Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Roughing it Easy

Roughing it Easy PDF Author: Dian Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962125737
Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
With more than one million copies of previous editions sold, this proven, bestselling guide to having fun in the great outdoors provides an all-in-one tool that shows what readers need to know about campsites, fire-building, cooking, backpacking, winter camping, and more.

Roughing It

Roughing It PDF Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520914636
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1122

Book Description
Based on Mark Twain's own years of "variegated vagabonding" in the West, this comic narrative offers a virtual grab-bag of tall tales, folklore, beast fables, travelogue, local color, autobiography, history, geography--even statistics. This new critical edition of Roughing Itsupersedes the 1972 edition published in the Works of Mark Twain over twenty years ago. It is an entirely new undertaking, by a different group of editors. Together they have made extensive use of newly discovered historical and textual materials, particularly biographical documents which illuminate how Mark Twain gave literary shape to his actual experiences in the West. This edition includes the more than 300 illustrations Mark Twain commissioned for his book. It also provides six new maps: two for Nevada in the 1860s and four to help trace the Clemens brothers' cross-country stagecoach route. The editors provide a comprehensive introduction that will supplant all previous accounts of how Mark Twain wrote and revised his second long book. Fully supplemented by the textual apparatus, the edition presents a complete record of Twain's revisions and is sure to become the standard text of Mark Twain's great Western adventure. Editorial work was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a generous gift from the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation.

Mark Twain in Hawaii

Mark Twain in Hawaii PDF Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Mutual Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description

Roughing It by Mark Twain

Roughing It by Mark Twain PDF Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594

Book Description
The celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as "a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer."* In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a newcomer in the Wild West, working as a civil servant, silver prospector, mill worker, and finally a reporter and traveling lecturer. Roughing It is the hilarious record of those early years traveling from Nevada to California to Hawaii, as Twain tried his luck at anything and everything--and usually failed. Twain's encounters with tarantulas and donkeys, vigilantes and volcanoes, even Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.

Tracks

Tracks PDF Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN: 9780007212262
Category : Indian reservations
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Set in North Dakota, at a time in the early 20th century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, 'Tracks' is a tale of passion and deep unrest.
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