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Original Title:	Roughing It
ISBN:	0743436504 (ISBN13: 9780743436502)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, Mr. Higbie, Jules Beni, Mr. Ballou, Young Claggett , Oliphant, Col. Jack, Tom Reeder, Bill Noakes, Kamehameha I., George Gumbert, Ned Blakely, Ollendorff, Philip Lynch, Kaahumanu, Roop, Alexander Davis, Kalaimoku, Mr. Blucher, King Liholiho, Mormondom, J. Smith, J. A. Slade, John James Godfrey, Scotty Briggs, Buncombe, Mrs. Beazely, Buck Fanshaw, Mr. Curry, Judge Cradlebaugh, Mr. Arkansas, Winthrop L. Willis, Mrs. O'Flannigan, Mr. Van Dorn, Marshall Rodgers, Uncle Lem, John H. Morgan, Mr. Street, Markiss, SIMON ERICKSON, William Kanui, John B. Winters, Mr. W., Dr. Owens, Sile Hawkins, Dollinger, Mrs. C. V. Waite, Miss Wagner, Mr. Ben Holliday, Miss Jacops, Mr. Dimsdale, Joe McGee, Mr. Jules, MARTIN HARRIS
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Roughing It

Mark Twain

Paperback | Pages: 560 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 7653 Users | 704 Reviews

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Though known throughout the world for his fictional novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain was also a skilled chronicler of his own life and experiences. In his youth, Twain traveled extensively throughout the untamed American West with his brother, working his way from town to town in a variety of jobs, including gold prospector, reporter, and lecturer. Roughing It is Twain's personal recollection of his wanderlust years. It is a wildly humorous adventure yarn that combines hard facts with a healthy dose of the author's unique perspective, one that helped define the course of American literature.

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Title	:	Roughing It
Author	:	Mark Twain
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Enriched Classic
Pages	:	Pages: 560 pages
Published	:	April 29th 2003 by Pocket Books (first published February 1872)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Travel. Humor

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Ratings: 3.89 From 7653 Users | 704 Reviews

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Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical work about the American west in the 1860's. I know that most every student in most every American Lit 301 class is instructed that Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is the great American novel, but Twain's works must be high on the list of great American literature. This was like Forrest Gump a hundred years early. Twain meets Brigham Young, works as a silver miner, explores the Nevada territory, visits San Francisco during the earthquake, and then goes off

"Roughing It" is a memoir covering a six year span of Mark Twain's years as a young journalist and occasional miner. It might also be classified as his coming of age story. He just happened to come of age during the tumult of the War Between the States, a time when slavery was still the law of half of the land. From his descriptions of Native Americans, African Americans, and Chinese, there can be little doubt that at this stage of his career, he wrote to an exclusively Caucasian audience. It

Twain's brand of humour wears thin after awhile.Probably would've been of more interest to readers of the time period, whose imaginations were fired by stories of the West. Keeping in mind that he exaggerates famously for effect, what a remarkable life Mark Twain led.!

The book follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 18611867.The book covers Twains stagecoach trip with his brother Orion Clemens, the newly appointed secretary of the Nevada Territory, from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Carson City, Nevada (July to August, 1861); Twains unsuccessful efforts to stake a timber claim and to prospect for silver (until August, 1862); his reporting and freelance writing for the Territorial Enterprise of Virginia City, Nevada (until

This is by far one of the best books I have ever read. I am particularly prone to wanderlust and adventurous pursuits myself, and you cannot find a better book or a more kindred spirit in this regard. This book is also very funny, and I found myself laughing out loud on many occasions. It is true, as other reviewers have said, that the book lags a little bit around the mark due to including too much detailed information on various subjects. I think Twain himself recognized this, as he is found

Like the Nevada quartz described herein, Roughing It contains some really brilliant, valuable stuff but also a hefty load of overburden. Some of this wordy excess and at times hammy humor might bring down the average to a feeble 3 stars, but there's enough memorable Twainian cleverness and historical interest to forgive some skimming and a few skipped chapters. In my opinion, Twain was at his best when he wasn't trying too hard to be funny (or, in times of weakness, lazily leaning on

This book is a great read. Being a Nevadan, I could truly appreciate many of the stories Twain related in his book. I especially liked his description of a "Washoe zephyr". And it was a treasure to read his description of Lake Tahoe, before it was "developed", and became the congested mess that it is today. What a gem it must have been to be able to see it before there were roads, and casinos, and houses built right by the lake shore. As I was reading that segment of the book, I thought if I